Long Quarrel

Jacques Bos, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. His principal area of research is early-modern intellectual history.Jan Rotmans obtained his PhD in history from the University of Amsterdam in 2020, where he currently works as a policy officer. His dissertation is entitled Enlightened Pessimism: Republican Decline in Dutch Revolutionary Thought, 1780-1800.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: The Long Quarrel1 The Long Quarrel in the Eighteenth CenturyJacques Bos and Jan Rotmans2 The Quarrel in the Long Eighteenth Century: From “Ancient and Modern” to “Classical and Romantic”Larry F. NormanPart 2: Epistemology3 The Speculative Foundations of the Quarrel: Fontenelle’s Plurality of Inhabited Worlds and the ‘Epistemology of the Uncertain’Christine Zabel4 The Quarrel over Chronology at the Académie des inscriptions: Ancient History, Modern Methods, and the Autonomy of the Historical DisciplineAnton M. MatytsinPart 3: Aesthetics5 Questioning Homer’s Iliad? Different Perceptions of the Ancient World in the Pages of the Nouveau Mercure GalantDavid D. Reitsam6 Thersites Moralized: Eighteenth-Century Corrective, Apologetic and Exegetic Readings of the Second Book of Homer’s IliadVera Fasshauer7 “Horace is dead, but I am alive”: Epic Failure and Satiric Authority in Eighteenth-Century SwedenAnna Cullhed8 ‘Necesse est indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum’: William Hogarth’s The Four Times of Day and the Challenge to Past Models in Eighteenth-Century ArtFriederike VoßkampPart 4: Politics9 Ochlocracy and Democracy in the “Long Quarrel”: Modern Republicanism and Its Ancient Rivals RevisitedIain McDaniel10 The Political Thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers ReconsideredAndrew Jainchill11 Between History and Political Economy: The Debate over Ancient Populousness in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-NorwayHåkon EvjuBibliographyIndex