Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

Name: Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521846486

ISBN-10: 052184648X

ISBN-13: 9780521846486

Edition: 2007

Authors: James Hankins

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 452
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

James Hankins is Professor of History, Harvard University. He is the General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library.



List of figures


Acknowledgments


Notes on contributors


Chronology



Introduction




Continuity and Revival



The philosopher and Renaissance culture




Humanism, scholasticism, and Renaissance philosophy




Continuity and change in the Aristotelian tradition




The revival of Platonic philosophy




The revival of Hellenistic philosophies




Arabic philosophy and Averroism




How to do magic, and why: philosophical prescriptions




Toward Modern Philosophy



Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophy




Lorenzo Valla and the rise of humanist dialectic




The immortality of the soul




Philosophy and the crisis of religion




Hispanic scholastic philosophy




New visions of the cosmos




Organizations of knowledge




Humanistic and scholastic ethics




The problem of the prince




The significance of Renaissance philosophy




Brief biographies of Renaissance philosophers


Bibliography


Index