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Frans-Willem
Korsten, A Dutch Republican Baroque:
Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event. Amsterdam University Press, 06-11-2017 - 248 pp. - € 95,00 - PDF van Inoud en Introduction - Cover illustration: Gerard van
Honthorst, Laughing violinist, 1624
Korsten
behandelt de ‘Dutch republican baroque’ als een ‘anomaly’ in het kielzog van
hoe door Negri Spinoza een anomaliteit werd genoemd: “It is no surprise, then,
that the Republic, or one of its iconic figures, Benedict de Spinoza, has been
defined as an ‘anomaly’.” Kunstenaars als Vondel, Vos, Hals en Rembrandt werden
altijd al met barok in verband gebracht. “Others are not at all, or less well,
known as baroque (eg. Spinoza, Rumphius).” [p. 22] Opvallend is dan dat hij een
van de weinigen die Spinoza uitdrukkelijk als een filosoof van de Barok zag,
Carl Gebhardt, niet noemt.
De
uitgeverstekst: Though the baroque worldliness of the Dutch Republic was, in
some aspects, deeply religious, it was also radically material or empirical, as
in the work of Spinoza. In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two
aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two
political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is
characterised by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out
of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the
coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque
exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor,
regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new
historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one,
this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions
among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event: concepts
that are currently at the centre of philosophical and political debates but the
modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of
history and world in the Dutch Republic.””
Bij zo'n cover hoort een lachende Spinoza. Die wordt ons geleverd in tweets van Martin O'Neill
Bij zo'n cover hoort een lachende Spinoza. Die wordt ons geleverd in tweets van Martin O'Neill
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