Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome

Langlands, Rebecca

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“…In order to first determine their nature and subsequently not so much resolve them as elaborate alternative ways of conceiving the role of National Socialist exemplarity, a few preliminary words on my understanding of the notion of exemplarity are in order. The concept has enjoyed certain traction in a number of disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, history, law, education, and philosophy (Ferrara 2018;Langlands 2018;McNay 2019;Noyes 2016;Owen 2017;Toracca 2018;Eriksen 2017;Kristjánsson 2017;Sibau 2011;and Lowrie and Lüdemann 2017).…”

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Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany

Shoshan

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article examines whether and how the figure of Adolf Hitler in particular, and National Socialism more generally, operate as moral exemplars in today’s Germany. In conversation with similar studies about Mosely in England, Franco in Spain, and Mussolini in Italy, it seeks to advance our comparative understanding of neofascism in Europe and beyond. In Germany, legal and discursive constraints limit what can be said about the Third Reich period, while even far-right nationalists often condemn Hitler, for either the Holocaust or his military failure. Here I revise the concept of moral exemplarity as elaborated by Caroline Humphry to argue that Hitler and National Socialism do nevertheless work as contemporary exemplars, in at least three fashions: negativity, substitution, and extension. First, they stand as the most extreme markers of negative exemplarity for broad publics that understand them as illustrations of absolute moral depravity. Second, while Hitler himself is widely unpopular, Führer-substitutes such as Rudolf Hess provide alternative figures that German nationalists admire and seek to emulate. Finally, by extension to the realm of the ordinary, National Socialism introduces a cast of exemplars in the figures of loving grandfathers or anonymous fallen soldiers. The moral values for which they stand, I show, appear to be particularly significant for young nationalists. An extended, more open-ended notion of exemplarity, I conclude, can offer important insights about the lingering afterlife of fascist figures in the moral life of European nationalists today.

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Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany

Shoshan

2021

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“…A disszertáció vonatkozó fejezeteinek megírása után volt alkalmam elolvasni az elemzéseket, de utólag is nagyon hasznosnak bizonyultak, és megerősítették a nemzetségi emlékezet e két kiemelkedő alakjának emlékezetéhez fűződő, illetve részben azok által generált hatásokat, amelyek a nemzetség kollektív emlékezetében kitapintható, a vonatkozó fejezetekben részletesen tárgyalt duális oppozíciókat létrehozták. R. Langlands (2018) az exemplumok etikai vonatkozásait elemzi kötetében példaadó történetei a római nobilitas és a politikai vezetés számára államférfiakat adó gens tagjaitól elvárt, a nekik tulajdonított viselkedések és értékfogalmak egymással szorosan összekapcsolódó mintázatát rajzolják fel. 51 A római vezetők és politikai intézményeik tekintélyét (auctoritas, gravitas) és méltóságát (dignitas) együttesen táplálja az ősök példaadó és normatív fellépése, amely kiváló erényeiknek volt köszönhető és az a remény, hogy a vezetők a jövőben is ezeket a mintákat követik, sőt túlszárnyalják elődeik példáját (mos maiorum).…”

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“…85 L. Pietilä-Castrén (1987), 43. 86 L. Pietilä-Castrén (1987 Regulus exemplumáról legújabban, Chaplin (2000), 93-97, Leach (2014) és Langlands (2018), 267-290. 88 A történetről beszámoló legfőbb források: Cic.…”

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A római nemzetségek emlékezete

Jármi¹

2019

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“…Particularly helpful on the issues of early Rome, exemplarity and ethnicity in Livy are Miles 1995; Farney 2007; Pausch 2008. Beyond Livy, see, for example, Roller 2004; Langlands 2018: esp. 29–45.…”

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Tarpeia the Vestal

Neel

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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Tarpeia's role as a Vestal has become a matter of scholarly consensus in the past two decades. This article questions that consensus by suggesting that Varro and Propertius are the two major proponents of this ‘Vestal version’, which is not present in other major narratives such as Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch. Propertius’ version in particular, which depicts Tarpeia as a Vestal in love, has been overprivileged in analyses of this myth as a dramatisation of individual identity versus loyalty to the state. Varro's account, which also includes Tarpeia's Vestal status, suggests a different interpretation: it is likely that Varro considered Tarpeia a non-Roman Vestal whose Vestal status supported the state. This version resolves certain dissonances in early Roman myth.

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Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome

Cited by 63 publications

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Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany

Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany

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