After the Fall: Classical Antiquity in Polish Intellectual History, 1795–1825 (Brill Research Perspectives in Early Modern Cultures of the Younger Europe)

Junkiert, Maciej

ISBN 10: 9004692886 / ISBN 13: 9789004692886

Published by Brill, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After the Fall: Classical Antiquity in Polish Intellectual History, 1795?1825 (Brill Research Perspectives in Early Modern Cultures of the Younger Europe)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004692886
• ISBN 13: 9789004692886
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

After the Fall examines the Polish reception of Greco-Roman antiquity. Set against the backdrop of the loss of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s independence after 1795, which prompted a rethinking of Polish intellectual traditions related to antiquity, it explores how this process was influenced by a vision of antiquity emerging in Britain, France, and other European countries from the mid-eighteenth century. The book shows how this interpretation, linked to the development of philology, ancient history, and the history of philosophy, involved constructing the past anew to better serve the contemporary needs of the Polish intellectual elite.

About the Author

Maciej Junkiert specialises in Romantic literature and Polish-German intellectual history. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He focuses on nineteenth-century evolution of historical-literary research, literary reception of the French Revolution, and Polish literature as Weltliteratur. His most recent publication is The New Greeks: Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of ‘Altertumswissenschaft’ (2024).