A querela dos antigos e modernos: panorama historiográfico

Luiz César de Sá Júnior

doi:10.5433/1984-3356.2016v9n18p494

Authors

Luiz César de Sá Júnior Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-7940

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2016v9n18p494

Keywords:

Modern history, Intellectual history, Quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, Battle of the books

Abstract

This article aims to analyse historiographical texts concerning the so-called “quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns” in seventheenth and eighteenth centuries. Our study is led by the methodological assumption that the very concept of a “quarrel” ought to be meticulously submitted to scrutiny, since its contemporary usesmay distort the original meanings of the texts that it comprehends, giving birth to several connotations that ultimately (and somewhat paradoxically) assured the concept’s effectiveness over time. Moreover, we intend to shed light on the emergence of a teleological approach to the “quarrel”, which resulted in an interpretation of seventeenth and eighteenth-century controversies as Modernity milestones. As such, our investigation suggests, in conclusion, that the better way to deal with the aforementioned issues is to study the original circunstances of production of the quarrels along with the manifold mediations that they have endured over time.

Author Biography

Luiz César de Sá Júnior, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Master in History from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Doctoral student in Social History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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