...In Ernest Renan, one reaches a point where romantic faith is married to high scholarship. It would seem that the lively interest in medieval heretics as precursors of modern visionaries had itself sparked off an impulse to scholarly research in this field. Renan has responded emotionally...

... Carnegie Andrew James Henry Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy political theology liberalism self-cultivation race many-sidedness universalism Ernest Renan F. D. Maurice In the last chapter I used the monogenesis-polygenesis debates to explore what was at stake, for mid-Victorian liberals...

.... In the subsequent sections of this chapter, attention is focused on Ernest Renan and his scholarly interest on Celtic literature. The works of Matthew Arnold and his sentiments on the Celtic language are discussed in this chapter as well. In addition, the irritating yet instructive feature of Irish cultural life...

... mathematics Averroes Being Bouveresse Jacques comparative Germans Hindus mystical Blanc Louis communism École Polytechnique economic Napoleon desire intervention nineteenth-century French philosophy spiritualism Etienne Vacherot Emile Saisset Ernest Renan If Victor Cousin possessed...

...In 1869, Matthew Arnold published the essay Culture and Anarchy, in which he appealed to the intellectual and moral reform of England. The following year, the French intellectual Ernest Renan wrote a tract entitled La Réforme intellectuelle et morale calling...

... time calendars calendrical time transition restoration present past future interwovenness of ruins history end of revolutions space and time Muslim Golden Age universal history Nahda Rifa‘a Rafi‘a al-Tahtawi Ibn Khaldun Ernest Renan Gustave Le Bon Jamal al-Din al-Afghani Jurji Zaidan...

...This chapter examines Péguy’s stand against the positivist historicism of the nineteenth century as it was formulated and disseminated by Hippolyte Taine and Ernest Renan. For Péguy, the modern historical consciousness exemplified by Taine and Renan, tinged with a dogmatic faith in scientific...

... constitutionalism legitimacy resources deference mediated legitimacy Ernest Renan this book attempted to describe the democratic and constitutional framework within which supranational governance in the European Union—what we might call Europeanized administrative governance—seeks...

...Fig. 1.1. The bustle of the Librairie Nouvelle on the Boulevard des Italiens, c.1857 © Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis This chapter situates the book’s findings both in the specialist literature surrounding Ernest Renan and his Vie de Jésus, and in the substantial...

...This chapter provides a detailed intellectual biography of Ernest Renan, from his upbringing in Restoration Brittany through to the release of Vie de Jésus in 1863. It traces his reading in German scholarship while at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, explores his political...

... philosophies; and all the books, also, by Ernest Renan’. ¹⁶ Pozzi thus conceived of multiple possible religious philosophies, as well as a lone figure that stood apart from them all: Renan. This is not to say that more orthodox voices did not persist. On the republican side, the centenary...

... the influence on him at that time of Leo Tolstoy and Ernest Renan. The influence of Renan's History of Christianity is quite evident in the structure of Dubnow's History of Hasidism as well as in some of Dubnow's solutions to problems of interpretation. Like Renan, Dubnow...

... Alighieri Dante Rabelais François Rubens Peter Paul historism organic memory Sigmund Freud Friedrich Nietzsche Johann Gustav Droysen Maurice Halbwachs Ernest Renan Walter Benjamin “What does it mean to remember?” This question might seem commonplace when it is confined to the domain of events...

... democratism, contrasting the melancholy ambivalence or double-voicedness of Ernest Renan's writings circa 1871 with what the author calls the antiagonistic strategies of Flaubert's contemporaneous novels. Bouvard and Pécuchet actually take up the matter of universal suffrage on the tenth of December 1848...

... attention is paid to the development of scholarly Celtology and the cultural discourse of Celticism, with analysis of the work of the nineteenth century theorists Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold. The introduction also explores the late nineteenth/early twentieth century Celtic Revivals of Ireland...

... Evangel as he found them in the writings of Ernest Renan and his followers. The third status also became something of a personal metaphor or nexus of metaphors for the state of blessedness or momentary timelessness which Yeats thought about in his deepest religious poems. But his...

... of the liberally educated gentleman, were based on his early experience at Oxford. Matthew Arnold had similar ideas, and this chapter compares his ideal of culture with the writings of Ernest Renan in France and Jacob Burckhardt in Switzerland. All saw the materialist spirit of industrial society as a danger which...

... reformism, and Orientalist philology, it elaborates a theory of historical awakening as mutual defamiliarization. The introduction concludes by demonstrating how the anti-Semitic Orientalism of Ernest Renan fabricated the “Orient” as an object of knowledge that carried within it the mechanisms of its own...

...Chapter 1 does a comparative reading of French theories of philological decadence and Arabic and Islamic accounts of reformism and modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century. It begins with an examination of the secular philosophy of history of French Orientalist Ernest Renan, which...