Grand homme

Titel: Grand homme
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Ausgabe: Version 1.0, published 10 February 2023
Veröffentlicht: Freiburg : Universität, 2023
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Compendium heroicum. das Online-Lexikon des Sonderforschungsbereichs 948 „Helden – Heroisierungen – Heroismen“
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Zusammenfassung: Abstract: The term grand homme refers to a counter-model to the traditional, military héros, which shaped the French history of ideas of the heroic in the second half of the 18th and in the 19th century. It goes back to a contribution by the Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, first published in 1751 by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert. Alongside related concepts such as the German cult of genius, the intellectual hero as well as the British great men, the grand homme also achieved European significance. Simultaneously, the concept experienced a lively medial impact in art, architecture and political symbolism in the 19th century