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Before enlightenment : play and illusion in Renaissance humanism
- Title
- Before enlightenment : play and illusion in Renaissance humanism / by Timothy Kircher.
- Author
- Kircher, Timothy
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- viii, 293 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism, Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy. Literary qualities - tone, voice, persona, style, imagery - composed a core of their philosophizing, so that play and illusion, as well as rational certainty, formed pre-Enlightenment ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Before Enlightenment takes issue with the long-standing view of humanism's philosophical mediocrity. It shows new features of Renaissance culture that help explain the origins not only of Enlightenment rationalists, but also of early modern novelists and essayists. If humanist writings promoted objective knowledge based on reason's supremacy over emotion, they also showed awareness of one's place and play in the world. The animal rationale is also the homo ludens"--
- Series Statement
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 326
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 326.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6609
- ISBN
- 9789004442696
- 9004442693
- LCCN
- 2020036017
- 40030228020
- OCLC
- 1178903639
- Author
- Kircher, Timothy, author.
- Title
- Before enlightenment : play and illusion in Renaissance humanism / by Timothy Kircher.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 326Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 326.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1450-1600
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kircher, Timothy, Before enlightenment Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004442702 (DLC) 2020036018
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030228020
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6609