1536 KB73 KB201820252025Petter, Augustoštevilka:2/3letnik:8str. 93-127DOI:10.64651/8-2-5ISSN:2630-3426COBISSID_HOST:268327427URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-SJ2QGREQenZdruženje za promocijo kulturne dediščine, raziskav in novih tehnologij- RetrospektiveRetrospektivecivilizacijacivilizationhistory of monarchiesnapredekpolitical aestheticspolitična estetikaprogresszgodovina monarhijCeremonies of civilization| a study on the aesthetics of progress in the age of comparisons| Ceremoniali civilizacije| raziskava o estetiki napredka v dobi primerjav|This article shows how post-Enlightenment philosophies of history were aesthetically embodied in certain events, institutions, and individuals that disseminated the linear and imperialist temporality of progress. As a case study, the article examines the 1876–1877 journey abroad of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, in the context of civilizational comparisons. The emperor’s practice of visiting institutions that materialized and displayed progress (museums, universities, factories, etc.) attracted the attention of the international press, which contributed to the fashioning and dissemination of that image. Moreover, his personal aversion to pompous ceremonies led to the adoption of novel political rituals that took place within progressive institutions and events, such as the International Exhibition in Philadelphia and the Caxton Celebration in London. Fashioned as “ceremonies of civilization,” these events – like the progressive emperor of a country socially and economically based on slave labor – reveal temporal ambivalences in the “age of comparisons.”Clanek preucuje, kako so se postrazsvetljenske filozofije zgodovine utelešale v dolocenih politicno-estetskih dogodkih, institucijah in osebah, ki so širili linearno in imperialisticno casovnost napredka. Kot študijo primera je predstavljeno potovanje brazilskega cesarja Dom Pedra II. v letih 1876–1877 v kontekstu primerjave civilizacij. Cesarjeva praksa obiskovanja institucij, ki so materializirale in prikazovale napredek (muzeji, univerze, tovarne itd.), je pritegnila pozornost mednarodnega tiska, ki je prispeval k oblikovanju in širjenju te podobe. Poleg tega je cesarjevo osebno zavracanje pompoznih ceremonij prispevalo k uvedbi novih politicnih ritualov, ki so potekali v okviru naprednih institucij in dogodkov, kot sta Mednarodna razstava v Philadelphii ter Caxtonova proslava v Londonu. V skladu s podobo naprednega vladarja države, katere družbeni in gospodarski temelj je bilo suženjsko delo, te dogodke lahko razumemo kot »ceremoniale civilizacije«, ki razkrivajo casovne ambivalentnosti v »dobi primerjav«TEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZdruženje za promocijo kulturne dediščine, raziskav in novih tehnologij Retrospektive