Theory As Practice Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance

Name: Theory As Practice Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780226777429

ISBN-10: 0226777421

ISBN-13: 9780226777429

Edition: 1992

Authors: Nancy S. Struever

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There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers--as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work. Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figures--Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne--was to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who "relocated" ethical inquiry from a…

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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 255
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: The Uses of the Present



The Relocation of Inquiry



Petrarchan Ethics: Inventing a Practice



Afterword: Familiar Letters after Petrarch; A Practice Practiced



Internal Discipline Introduction



Metaphoric Morals: Ethical Implications of Cusanus's Use of Figure



Lorenzo Valla's Grammar of Subject and Object: An Ethical Inquiry



Afterword: The Figuration of Aristotle



External Address Introduction



Machiavelli: Narrative as Argument



Montaigne's Web of Belief



Afterword 1: Purity as Danger; Gramsci's Machiavelli, Croce's Vico



Afterword 2: Purity as Danger; Belief after Montaigne


Index