Overview
- Argues that an abrupt boundary should not divide the historiography of Renaissance and Early Modern philosophies
- Details the methodological instruments for a new approach to the study of history of philosophy
- Represents the latest research conducted across Europe and America
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 220)
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When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosophers have something in common, which distinguishes them from Early Modern philosophers? And ultimately, what defines the modernity of the Early Modern period, and what role did the Renaissance play in shaping it? The answers to these questions are not just chronological. This book challenges traditional constructions of these periods, which partly reflect the prejudice that the Renaissance was a literary and artistic phenomenon, rather than a philosophical phase.
The essays in this book investigate how the legacy of Renaissance philosophers persisted in the following centuries through the direct encounters of subsequent generations with Renaissance philosophical texts. This volume treats Early Modern philosophers as joining their predecessors as ‘conversation partners’: the ‘conversations’ in this book feature, among others, Girolamo Cardano and Henry More, Thomas Hobbes and Lorenzo Valla, Bernardino Telesio and Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Tommaso Campanella, Giulio Cesare Vanini and the anonymous Theophrastus redivivus.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Endurance of Tradition
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Natural Philosophy
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Moral and Political Theory
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy
Editors: Cecilia Muratori, Gianni Paganini
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32604-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32602-3Published: 07 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81325-7Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32604-7Published: 27 September 2016
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 298
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science