Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy

Posted on 2017-11-272017-11-27 by

Author :

Publisher : BRILL

Release : 2017-11-27

ISBN-13 : 9004355324

Page : 476 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 324 voters

Inspired by Jill Kraye’s many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy and humanism by leading experts in the field.

More Books:

Language: en
Pages: 476

Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy

Authors:

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-27 - Publisher: BRILL

Inspired by Jill Kraye’s many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy a

Language: en
Pages: 336

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Authors: James M. Ambury

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-02 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views

Language: en
Pages: 304

Before Enlightenment

Authors: Timothy Kircher

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-12 - Publisher: BRILL

The literary qualities of humanists’ writings convey how play and illusion helped form their ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Timothy Kircher a

Language: en
Pages: 214

Beyond Reception

Authors: Patrick Baker

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-01 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship ta

Language: en
Pages: 288

Pico Della Mirandola on Trial

Authors: Brian Copenhaver

Categories:

Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pico della Mirandola On Trial uses Pico's Apology, his self-defence against heresy charges, to show that his work was in no way progressive - or 'humanist' - an

Language: en
Pages: 310

Plotinus' Legacy

Authors: Stephen Gersh

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.

Language: en
Pages: 624

Magic and the Dignity of Man

Authors: Brian P. Copenhaver

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-19 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

Pico della Mirandola, one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Renaissance, has become known as a founder of humanism and a supporter of secular rationality.

Language: en
Pages: 320

Early Modern Aristotle

Authors: Eva Del Soldato

Categories: Authority

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

In Early Modern Aristotle, Eva Del Soldato examines treatises, legends, proverbs, fictions, and rhetorical tropes to trace how recourse to the authority of Aris

Language: en
Pages: 560

The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

Authors: David Marshall Miller

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-06 - Publisher:

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Language: en
Pages: 392

Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics

Authors: Niccol- Guicciardini

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Discover essays by leading scholars on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times in European and non-European cultures.