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Before Enlightenment Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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| Colección: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Chapter 1 The Riddles of Renaissance Humanism
- 1 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Early Modern Ideas
- 2 Finders and Seekers in Renaissance Humanism
- 3 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy
- 4 Literary Modalities of Humanist Expression and Overview of Chapters
- Chapter 2 Esse et videri: To Be and to Seem (Knowledge)
- 1 Piccolomini's Dream
- 2 Quattrocento Hypocrisy: The Play of Appearances
- 3 Trecento Antecedents: Appearing and Seeming in Petrarch and Boccaccio
- 4 Walking Knowledge: The Transience and Accumulation of Perception
- 5 Sixteenth-Century Simulations
- Chapter 3 The Procession of Virtue (Ethics)
- 1 Reason as the Guide to Virtue: Finding the Moral Way
- 2 The Virtues of Pedagogy
- 3 The Morality of Rational Love
- 4 Fortune's Challenge to Virtue
- 5 Laying Down the Moral Habits: Dialogues of the Dead
- 6 Fortune and Folly in the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 4 The Beauty of the Whole (Metaphysics)
- 1 Poetica Theologia to Poetica Metaphysica
- 2 Prometheus the Light-Bringer: The Mediator between Humanity and Divinity
- 3 Approaching the Sun: The Upper Reaches of Humanist Conceptions of Reality
- 4 Chaos Theory: The Circulation of Atomism
- 5 The Limits of Vision beneath the Earthly Veil
- 6 Ontological Rupture: Momus as Alter-Prometheus
- 7 The Swiftness of Time: Playing with Plutarch
- Chapter 5 The End of Humanism
- and the Humanities?
- 1 Questions of Humanism and the Humanities
- 2 The End in Rabelais's Cinq livres / Five Books
- 3 Bembo's Walking Knowledge and the Limited Outlook
- 4 The Turnings of Self-Study as Humanism's Physics and Metaphysics
- Bibliography
- Index