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Title

Philosophers of the Renaissance / edited by Paul Richard Blum ; translated by Brian McNeil.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Blum, Paul Richard

Description

vii, 323 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. International specialists portray the thought of twenty-one individual philosophers, illustrating their life and work and highlighting the importance of their thinking. The book weaves together their stories by emphasizing the unity of Renaissance philosophy in its attempt to find a philosophical method, combine religious and political thought, analyze language, and discuss the practical dimension of philosophy. Originally published in German in 1998, the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. A chapter on Luis Vives was written specifically for this English edition; an extensive bibliography introduces the reader to the current research on philosophers of the Renaissance"--Jacket.

Uniform Title

• Philosophen der Renaissance. English.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Geschichte 1300-1600
• Philosophy, Renaissance
• Philosophers, Medieval

Note

• Translation of: Philosophen der Renaissance. First published: Darmstadt : WBG (Wiessenschafliche Buchgesellschaft), c1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: philosophy in the Renaissance / Paul Richard Blum -- Ramon Lull (1232-1316) : the activity of God and the hominization of the world / Charles Lohr -- George Gemistos Plethon (ca. 1360-1454), George of Trebizond (1396-1472), and Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) : the controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians in the fifteenth century / Peter Schulz -- Lorenzo Valla (1406/7-1457) : humanism as philosophy / Paul Richard Blum -- Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) : squaring the circle : politics, piety, and rationality / Detlef Thiel -- Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) : philosophy of private and public life and of art / Michaela Boenke -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) : the synthetic reconciliation of all philosophies / Stephane Toussaint -- Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) : the aesthetic of the one in the soul / Tamara Albertini -- Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) : secular aristotelianism in the Renaissance / Jill Kraye --
• Niccoli Macchiavelli (1469-1527) : a good state for bad people / Heinrich C. Kuhn -- Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum -- Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. Andersson -- Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and philosopher / Günter Frank -- Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst -- Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz -- Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf -- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. Bauer --
• Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) : the revolution of knowledge from the prison / Germana Ernst.

ISBN

• 9780813217260 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813217261 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009045342

OCLC

• 461631908
• SCSB-10740047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library