Civilization and Its Discontents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8941188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gilks (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-510 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-9746615 |
| OpenAlex | W4312500337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article reinterprets Antoine Quatremère de Quincy's Letters on the Plan to Abduct the Monuments of Italy (1796). In response to official justifications that seizing cultural patrimony was France's civilizing mission, Quatremère argued that civilization required all nations to leave Rome intact and respect eighteenth-century conventions. The article shows how he attempted to make his work acceptable to republican readers by using a language uncharacteristic of his other writings and by mimicking the concept of a singular and secular civilization that was central to the post-Thermidorian Republic's identity. The Letters was part of the broader strategy of the royalist Clichy club to make republicans question the Republic. However, informed contemporaries saw through his conceit: they discerned an attack on the Directory in his description of how the papacy nourished and protected the civilization that the Directory protected in theory but endangered in practice. Cet article propose une nouvelle lecture des Lettres sur le déplacement des monuments de l'art de l'Italie (1796). Au discours officiel qui justifiait la saisie du patrimoine culturel de l'Italie vaincue au nom de la mission civilisatrice de la France, Quatremère oppose l'idée que c'est justement au nom de la civilisation que Rome doit être protégée et qu'il faut respecter les droits des nations tels qu'on les a définis au XVIIIe siècle. Quatremère s'est efforcé de présenter son texte de manière à le rendre acceptable aux lecteurs républicains : pour ce faire, il a eu recours à un langage très différent de celui de ses autres écrits, et il a fait semblant d'adhérer à l'idée de la civilisation unique et laïque au cœur de l'idéologie de la République post-Thermidorienne. Malgré ces efforts, les lecteurs avertis ont décelé son stratagème qui consiste à attaquer le Directoire tout en faisant de la papauté la vraie protectrice d'une civilisation que la République affirme défendre mais attaque en réalité. Les Lettres apparaissent ainsi comme un des éléments de la stratégie des Clichyens pour amener les républicains à remettre en question la République elle-même
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Sin and Self-Functioning, Part 1
Restoring the Spiritual
The Loving and Beloved Superego in Freud's Structural Theory
Prosocial Development
Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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Laclau’s New Postmodern Radicalism
Blind Hierarchism and Radical Organizational Forms
Human rights, belonging and the challenge of difference
Public and Private Consumption and the City
Freudian Theory Under Bolshevik Rule
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Living on the edge? Professional anxieties at work in academia and veterinary practice
Sea, sun, sex and the discontents of pleasure
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Inhaling Passions
Hobbes's Iconoclasm
The illusion of autonomy
Relation of Aggression in the Personality to Outcome with Electro-Convulsive Shock Therapy
Samoan Moral Discourse and the Loto
The Meaning of Work in Women's Lives A Sociopsychological Model of Career Choice and Work Behavior
Problems of collegial learning in psychoanalysis
Ecclesiastical history
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Popes and European Revolution
Considerations on France
The Great Demarcation
Before the Deluge
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
« Et la civilisation deviendra générale »
La Rome de Caylus et « l’idea del bello »
Condorcet
Art and politics during the 'First' Directory
Barbarism and religion, Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764
Ending the French Revolution
Attitudes to the Displacement of Cultural Property in the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon
The Political Economy of Burke&s Analysis of the French Revolution
Thermidor
The Culture of Reaction
The Great Society of the Human Species
The Marquis de Somerueles
A Republican Ecology? Citizenship, Nature and the French Revolution (1795-1799)
Adam Smith's Role in the French Revolution
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 1957 - 2024 (68) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |