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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser |
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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Humanism in literature.
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Humanists -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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European literature -- History and criticism -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
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European literature
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Humanism in literature
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Humanists
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004442702 |
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9004442707 |
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