The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy / general editor, Charles B. Schmitt ; editors, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler ; associate editor, Jill Kraye.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.Description: xiii, 968 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0521251044
9780521251044
9780521397483 ((pbk.))
0521397480 ((pbk.))

Subject(s):

Philosophy, Renaissance

DDC classification:

ARCH YNDC 190.9 S355C

LOC classification:

B775 .C25 1988

Contents:

Manuscripts / John F. D'Amico -- Printing and censorship / Paul F. Grendler -- The Renaissance concept of philosophy / Cesare Vasoli -- Translation, terminology and style in philosophical discourse / Brian P. Copenhaver -- Humanism / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Traditional logic / E.J. Ashworth -- Humanistic logic / Lisa Jardine -- Traditional natural philosophy / William A. Wallace -- The new philosophy of nature / Alfonso Ingegno -- Astrology and magic / Brian P. Copenhaver -- Moral philosophy / Jill Kraye -- Political philosophy / Quentin Skinner -- The concept of psychology / Katharine Park and Eckhard Kessler -- The organic soul / Katharine Park -- The intellective soul / Eckhard Kessler -- Metaphysics / Charles H. Lohr -- Fate, fortune, providence and human freedom / Antonino Poppi -- Theories of knowledge / Richard H. Popkin -- Epistemology of the sciences / Nicholas Jardine -- Rhetoric and poetics / Brian Vickers -- The theory of history / Donald R. Kelley -- The availability of ancient works / Anthony Grafton -- The rise of the philosophical textbook / Charles B. Schmitt.

Summary: The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy offers a balanced and comprehensive account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to the emergence of modern philosophy at the turn of the seventeenth century. The Renaissance has, of course, attracted much scholarly attention for over a century, but the philosophy of the period was, to begin with, relatively neglected, and this is the first volume in English to synthesise for a wider readership that substantial and sophisticated research now available. The Renaissance was, in fact, a time of intense, varied and in may ways distinctive philosophical activity which deserves to be at least as well known as the philosophy of the Middle Ages.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Archives	SAIACS Archives Room	Yandell Collection	ARCH YNDC 190.9 S355C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		065217

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The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy offers a balanced and comprehensive account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to the emergence of modern philosophy at the turn of the seventeenth century. The Renaissance has, of course, attracted much scholarly attention for over a century, but the philosophy of the period was, to begin with, relatively neglected, and this is the first volume in English to synthesise for a wider readership that substantial and sophisticated research now available. The Renaissance was, in fact, a time of intense, varied and in may ways distinctive philosophical activity which deserves to be at least as well known as the philosophy of the Middle Ages.

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The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy / general editor, Charles B. Schmitt ; editors, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler ; associate editor, Jill Kraye.