Publication

2017 - Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Word Count

57,000 words, Guess

Page Count

228 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789462982123
  • ISBN-109462982120
  • OCLC Control Number979568063
  • Better World Books9789462982123
  • Open LibraryOL29348399M

Classifications

  • LCCN6415.B3K67 2017
  • LCCD250

Description

In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterised by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event: concepts that are currently at the centre of philosophical and political debates but the modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of history and world in the Dutch Republic.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and EventAmsterdam University Press2017-01-01

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