Vermächtnis der Antike. Gesammelte Essays zur Philosophie und Geschichtsschreibung. Herausgegeben von C. Becker. - REINHARDT, K.,
KORTE INHOUD
The book ?comprises some eighteen pieces, of which three were reprinted in a in an earlier collection (?), and two are now published for the first time. In addition there are two indexes and a Nachwort by the editor. This last gives not only a general appreciation but a very fair attempt to describe certain principles underlying all Reinhardt?s writings. (?) The collection contains great riches. It opens with a remarkable unpublished article on ?Personifikation und Allegorie?. This involves the rejection of the view associated with the name of Usener, according to which the gods of the Greeks were the product of personifications of natural forces of various kinds. Rather the reverse. (?) It was the gods who were original, and personification which was derivative. This process gave way to that of Allegory after the fifth century. Allegory, defined as a statement with a second meaning different from its surface meaning, is the opposite of personification, and was absent in Homeric and archaic literature. (?) th...
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Göttingen, 1989. Reprint 2nd ed.1966. 479p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps slightly edge worn. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: REINHARDT, K.,] [Uitgever: VandenHoeck&Ruprecht] [Jaar: 1989] [Titel: Vermächtnis der Antike. Gesammelte Essays zur Philosophie und Geschichtsschreibung. Herausgegeben von C. Becker.]
