Discourses of Decline

Joris Oddens, Ph.D. (2012), University of Amsterdam, is a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a historian of Dutch political culture. His interests include the age of revolutions and the history of petitioning.Mart Rutjes, Ph.D. (2012), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on modern Dutch political history, and especially on the Dutch Age of Revolution.Arthur Weststeijn, Ph.D. (2010), European University Institute, is research fellow at the University of Padua. He has published widely on Dutch, Spanish, and Italian history, including, together with Wyger Velema, Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Brill, 2017).

• PrefaceNotes on EditorsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Republican Decline in ContextJoris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn2 Trends and Transitions in Dutch Commercial Republicanism, 1600–1800Ida Nijenhuis3 Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusWiep van Bunge4 Republicanism and Slavery in Dutch Intellectual Culture, 1600–1800Freya Sierhuis5 The Problem of National Debt in Dutch Republican Thought: Joan Derk van der Capellen and Elie LuzacLina Weber6 Polite Batavians: The Uses of the Past in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dutch SpectatorsEleá de la Porte7 Vulnerable Virtue: The Enlightened Pessimism of Dutch Revolutionaries at the End of the Eighteenth CenturyJan Rotmans8 A Republican Patriot on His Own Pedestal: Joan Hendrik Swildens (1746–1809)Niek van Sas9 The Demise of Dutch Republicanism in the Nineteenth CenturyRemieg Aerts10 Braving the Batavians: Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the Spanish EmpireLisa Kattenberg11 Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern VeniceAlessandro Metlica12 Greek Political Models in the German Enlightenment PressHans Erich Bödeker13 The European Republic from the Enlightenment to the Counter-RevolutionMatthijs Lok14 Conservatism, Republicanism, and Romanticism: Thomas Mann’s “Conversion” to Democracy in 1922Wessel KrulIndex