Before enlightenment: play and illusion in Renaissance humanism
"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 ra...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2021
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| In: |
Brill's studies in intellectual history (volume 326)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's studies in intellectual history
volume 326 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Humanism
/ Philosophy
/ Culture
/ Renaissance
/ History 1450-1600
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| Further subjects: | B
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600
History and criticism
B Humanists (Europe) History 16th century B Humanism in literature |
| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite [263]-285 Mit Register |
| ISBN: | 9004442693 |