The modern divide: From either side

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 453-467

  De Grazia, Margreta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 67650046975     PISSN: 10829636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10829636-2007-008     Document Type: Review

References (45)

1. For the similarly consequential operations of the "Great Divide" in anthropology, between "them" and "us" or "nature" and "culture," see Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), 11-12 ff
2. For uses of modernus from the fifth century through the Middle Ages, see Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Making Sense in Life and Literature, trans. Glen Burns (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), 81-82
3. Only after generations of debate does modern finally come into its own, in a standoff frequently identified with its emergence as a free-standing period. See Fredric Jameson's jaunty summary in A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present (London: Verso, 2002), 20-22
4. On Neuzeit, see Reinhart Koselleck, "Neuzeit: Remarks on the Semantics of the Modern Concepts of Movement," in Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, trans. Keith Tribe (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), 231-66
5. Jameson, A Singular Modernity, 5
6. On the modern as our present "fetish," see Linda Charnes, "The Fetish of 'the Modern,'" in Hamlet's Heirs: Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium (New York, Routledge, 2006), 13-25
7. Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," in Untimely Meditations, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 104, 123
8. Paul de Man, "Literary History and Literary Modernity," in Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 148
9. Jürgen Habermas, "Modernity: An Incomplete Project," in Modernism/Postmodernism, ed. Peter Brooker (London: Longman, 1992), 127
10. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 46-48
11. Karl Lowith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949)
12. Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, trans. Robert M. Wallace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983), 183-202. For a summary of Blumenberg's discussion of modern "reoccupations," see Wallace's introduction, xxi-xxvii
13. Jean François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. G. Bennington and B. Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 79
14. Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (New York: Harper and Row, 1960), 36
15. Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), 63
16. Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences, 106
17. For a historicization of the material and semantic properties of "frame" and of its consequence for the periodiza-tion of both the modern and the Renaissance, see Rayna Kalas, Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007)
18. Peter Burke, The Renaissance Sense of the Past (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967), 1
19. Thomas M. Greene, The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982), 30
20. Barkan, Unearthing the Past, 3
21. On the multiple valences of Antichrist, see John Parker, The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007)
22. Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 4
23. Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), vii
24. See Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1981), 139
25. See Margreta de Grazia, "Hamlet before His Time," Modern Language Quarterly 62 (2001): 355-75
26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), 395
27. On Burckhardt's largely unrecognized Hegelianism, see E. H. Gombrich, In Search of Cultural History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), 14-25
28. On the implicit presence of the diachronic in synchronic accounts, see Jameson, Political Unconscious, 28
29. On Burckhardt's equation of the Renaissance with the beginning of the modern age, see Felix Gilbert, History: Politics or Culture? Reflections on Ranke and Burckhardt (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), 61 n. 17
30. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S. G. C. Middlemore (New York: Penguin, 1959), 120
31. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, ed. and trans
32. Walter Kaufmann, in On the Genealogy of Morals (New York: Random House, 1967; repr. New York: Vintage, 1989), 320
33. see also Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 114-15
34. Nietzsche, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History," Untimely Meditations, 83
35. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume One, trans. Ben Fowkes (New York: Vintage, 1976), 878
36. For a significant recasting of Marx's prehistory that identifies the capitalist wellspring with the medieval, see "The Marxist Premodern," a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, ed. Bruce Holsinger and Ethan Knapp, 34.3 (2004)
37. On the tight linkage between the Renaissance and the present, see the following by Stephen Greenblatt: Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (New York: Routledge, 1990), 167
38. and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 174-75
39. Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988), 139-64
40. Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," 164
41. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), XIV, XV; for history's triumphal procession, see VII
42. Benjamin, "Theses," II
43. Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (London: Verso, 1996), 138-39
44. Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture," Question Concerning Technology, 129, 130
45. Benedetto Croce, Theory and History of Historiography, trans. Douglas Ainslie (London: George G. Harrap, 1921), 113