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Before enlightenment : : play and illusion in Renaissance humanism / / Timothy Kircher.

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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 rationa...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 326
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Kircher, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 326.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • 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
  • 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
  • 4 Walking Knowledge: The Transience and Accumulation of Perception
  • 5 Sixteenth-Century Simulations
  • 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
  • 4 The Beauty of the Whole (Metaphysics)
  • 1 Poetica Theologia to Poetica Metaphysica
  • 2 Prometheus the Light-Bringer: the Mediator between Humanity and Divinity
  • 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
  • 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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