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Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century - A Styles of Thinking Approach (Hardcover)
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Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century - A Styles of Thinking Approach (Hardcover)
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As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive
texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in
Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find
references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre
descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals.
For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere
eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead,
this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and
tackled with a theoretical tool_styles of thinking_not yet used in
Luso-Brazilian studies, and coming from another field of inquiry:
philosophy and history of science. By doing so the book aims to
unveil epistemological and ontological issues in which colonial and
post-colonial studies are entangled, and which have a relevance
that goes beyond debates concerning, for instance, the formation of
Brazil's cultural identity. This book contributes to Luso-Brazilian
studies, science studies, and the history of the early-modern
period. The notion of 'styles of thinking' as presented and used in
it benefitted from the many discussions about philosophy and
history of science that emerged since the 1980s, with authors such
as Ian Hacking, Lorraine Daston, and Peter Galison, who have
already done much reassessing critically what is best in the work
of previous authors such as Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, and
Michel Foucault. This book considers that the well-known puzzling
passages of the corpus of the Portuguese have a fictional and
figurative character that acquires full intelligibility in view of
literary and mystical traditions typical of the late Renaissance,
and influential over the Portuguese. Nature is understood as
emerging from an excessive source which permanently overflows it
and which is impossible to refer and depict literally. The book
points to the fact that such an idea would connect the Portuguese
with other peculiar pre-Modern and post-Modern authors with similar
ontological insights: from the neo-Platonists to Boccaccio,
Nietzsche, and more recently, Derrida.
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Imprint: |
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2011 |
First published: |
June 2011 |
Authors: |
Alessandro Zir
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Dimensions: |
242 x 164 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
128 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61147-020-8 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
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General
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LSN: |
1-61147-020-X |
Barcode: |
9781611470208 |
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