Abstract

VERGARA-OLMOS, Ekaitz Ruiz de. Classicism: Genesis and Structure of a Romantic Idea. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2024, n.68, pp.279-317.  Epub Mar 08, 2024. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v680.2483.

The idea of classicism is one of the most used categories in the world of the arts and of philosophical aesthetics. However, the variety of its uses has caused the term to present difficulties of interpretation and ambiguities to those who study classicist art or literature. This paper intends to introduce some clarity and distinctness in the discussion about the idea of classicism. To do this, we first deal with the questions that concern its historical genesis, dissociating it from the similar, but essentially different, concept of the classical. Second, we offer a characterization of its structure through a systematization of its four main senses as they are commonly used in the bibliography on the subject. In this way, classicism presents itself to us as the problem of articulating the different philosophical conceptualizations that have been adopted about the classical.

Keywords : Classicism; classic; Romanticism; conceptual history; aesthetics.

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