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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Neo-Roman Mimesis and the Law of Ruin
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Part One After Carthage: The Roman Empire and Its Ruins -
One In the Rubble of Carthage: Polybios’s Histories and the Time That Remains -
Two Building the Roman Stage: The Scenographic Architecture of the Augustan Era -
Three Virgil’s Imperial Epic and Lucan’s Pharsalia, or the Specter of Hannibal and the Ruins of Rome -
Four The Ruins of the Conquered: Josephus’s Jewish War and Pausanias’s Periegesis -
Five Rubble, Ruins, and the Time before the End: Paul, Tertullian, and the Roman Empire as Katechon -
Part Two Neo-Roman Mimesis: Charles V at Tunis, 1535 -
Six “The Imagoes They Leave Behind”:1 -
Part Three Neo-Roman Mimesis in the Modern Age: Cook’s Second Voyage to the South Pacific and the French Conquest of Egypt and Algeria -
Seven Against Neo-Roman Mimesis: Johann Gottfried Herder at Carthage and François de Volney at Palmyra -
Eight Edward Gibbon and the Secret of Empire, or Scipio Africanus and the Savages of the South Pacific -
Nine Aeneas Fragment and the Enigma of the End: Georg Forster’s Voyage to the South Pacific and William Hodges’s Views of the Monuments of Easter Island -
Ten Caught Up in “Eternal Repetitions”: Napoleon in Egypt and Rome -
Eleven Repetition of a Repetition: The Conquest of Algeria, and Louis Bertrand’s North African Latinité -
Twelve Maori in Europe: Ruin Gazing and Scopic Mastery -
Part Four From Germany’s Anti-Roman Barbarians to the Ruin Gazer Scenarios of the Conservative Revolution -
Thirteen Anti-Roman Barbarians: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, C. D. Friedrich, and the Fight against Napoleon in the Ruins of Germania -
Fourteen The Second German Reich: The Struggle for Rome, or Barbarians Becoming Romans -
Fifteen Friedrich Nietzsche’s Modernist Mimesis and Gradiva’s Splendid Act of Imitation -
Sixteen Empires, Ruins, and the Conservative Critique of Modernity: Friedrich Ratzel and Oswald Spengler -
Part Five With the End in Mind: The Nazi Empire’s Neo-Roman Mimesis and the Ruined Stage of Rome -
Seventeen Hitler in Rome 1: Visiting the Mostra Augustea della Romanità, 1938 -
Eighteen Roman Lessons: Theorizing Empire, Conquering the East -
Nineteen Creating the Twilight Zone of the Third Reich’s Neo-Roman Imaginary: German Classicists, Resurrectional Performances, and the Trope of the Neo-Roman Conqueror’s Fortified Gaze -
Twenty Resurrections in a Modernist Mode: Greeks, Spartans, and Wild Savages, or the Restoration of Civilization’s Shattered Gaze -
Twenty-One Berlin/Germania: Seeing with Roman Eyes, Building a Roman Stage -
Twenty-Two Hitler in Rome 2: The Führer as Ruin Gazer, 1938 -
Twenty-Three Return to Carthage, or Hitler’s Aeneas/Dido Fragment -
Part Six Romans or Greeks? Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger -
Twenty-Four Katechon: Carl Schmitt’s Theology of Empire -
Twenty-Five Empire and Time: Martin Heidegger’s Anti-Roman Intervention - Epilogue: Anselm Kiefer’s Zersetzungen/Disarticulations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Anti-Roman Barbarians: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, C. D. Friedrich, and the Fight against Napoleon in the Ruins of Germania
Anti-Roman Barbarians: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, C. D. Friedrich, and the Fight against Napoleon in the Ruins of Germania
- Chapter:
- (p.243) Thirteen Anti-Roman Barbarians: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, C. D. Friedrich, and the Fight against Napoleon in the Ruins of Germania
- Source:
- The Conquest of Ruins
- Author(s):
Julia Hell
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226588223.003.0014
In the first chapter of part four, the author shifts the focus to the German case of neo-Roman mimesis. This process paradoxically begins with the anti-Napoleonic movement’s self-description as barbarians. Focusing on the movement’s intellectuals’ and artists’ engagement with Tacitus’s Germania and Virgil’s Aeneid, the author discusses the philosopher Fichte’s reflections on the deadening effect of Roman mimesis, Kleist’s Virgilian text calling for the annihilation of Rome/Paris, and the ruin paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. The chapter then turns to works by the Prussian architect Schinkel and historian Theodor Mommsen. Analyzing Schinkel’s painting of a triumphal arch and Mommsen’s monumental History of Rome, the author captures the beginnings of a shift from anti-Roman struggle to a German Reich framed as neo-Roman empire.
Keywords: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Theodor Mommsen, Tacitus, anti-Roman barbarian, neo-Roman Reich, triumphal arch
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Neo-Roman Mimesis and the Law of Ruin
-
Part One After Carthage: The Roman Empire and Its Ruins -
One In the Rubble of Carthage: Polybios’s Histories and the Time That Remains -
Two Building the Roman Stage: The Scenographic Architecture of the Augustan Era -
Three Virgil’s Imperial Epic and Lucan’s Pharsalia, or the Specter of Hannibal and the Ruins of Rome -
Four The Ruins of the Conquered: Josephus’s Jewish War and Pausanias’s Periegesis -
Five Rubble, Ruins, and the Time before the End: Paul, Tertullian, and the Roman Empire as Katechon -
Part Two Neo-Roman Mimesis: Charles V at Tunis, 1535 -
Six “The Imagoes They Leave Behind”:1 -
Part Three Neo-Roman Mimesis in the Modern Age: Cook’s Second Voyage to the South Pacific and the French Conquest of Egypt and Algeria -
Seven Against Neo-Roman Mimesis: Johann Gottfried Herder at Carthage and François de Volney at Palmyra -
Eight Edward Gibbon and the Secret of Empire, or Scipio Africanus and the Savages of the South Pacific -
Nine Aeneas Fragment and the Enigma of the End: Georg Forster’s Voyage to the South Pacific and William Hodges’s Views of the Monuments of Easter Island -
Ten Caught Up in “Eternal Repetitions”: Napoleon in Egypt and Rome -
Eleven Repetition of a Repetition: The Conquest of Algeria, and Louis Bertrand’s North African Latinité -
Twelve Maori in Europe: Ruin Gazing and Scopic Mastery -
Part Four From Germany’s Anti-Roman Barbarians to the Ruin Gazer Scenarios of the Conservative Revolution -
Thirteen Anti-Roman Barbarians: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, C. D. Friedrich, and the Fight against Napoleon in the Ruins of Germania -
Fourteen The Second German Reich: The Struggle for Rome, or Barbarians Becoming Romans -
Fifteen Friedrich Nietzsche’s Modernist Mimesis and Gradiva’s Splendid Act of Imitation -
Sixteen Empires, Ruins, and the Conservative Critique of Modernity: Friedrich Ratzel and Oswald Spengler -
Part Five With the End in Mind: The Nazi Empire’s Neo-Roman Mimesis and the Ruined Stage of Rome -
Seventeen Hitler in Rome 1: Visiting the Mostra Augustea della Romanità, 1938 -
Eighteen Roman Lessons: Theorizing Empire, Conquering the East -
Nineteen Creating the Twilight Zone of the Third Reich’s Neo-Roman Imaginary: German Classicists, Resurrectional Performances, and the Trope of the Neo-Roman Conqueror’s Fortified Gaze -
Twenty Resurrections in a Modernist Mode: Greeks, Spartans, and Wild Savages, or the Restoration of Civilization’s Shattered Gaze -
Twenty-One Berlin/Germania: Seeing with Roman Eyes, Building a Roman Stage -
Twenty-Two Hitler in Rome 2: The Führer as Ruin Gazer, 1938 -
Twenty-Three Return to Carthage, or Hitler’s Aeneas/Dido Fragment -
Part Six Romans or Greeks? Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger -
Twenty-Four Katechon: Carl Schmitt’s Theology of Empire -
Twenty-Five Empire and Time: Martin Heidegger’s Anti-Roman Intervention - Epilogue: Anselm Kiefer’s Zersetzungen/Disarticulations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
