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Textual Conversations in the Renaissance - Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Hardcover)
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Textual Conversations in the Renaissance - Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Hardcover)
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'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote
Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo's, this is a
book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a
concept that functioned simultaneously as a privileged literary and
rhetorical form (the dialogue), an intellectual and artistic
program (the humanists' interactions with ancient texts), and a
political possibility (the king's council, or the republican
concept of mixed government). In its varieties of knowledge
production, the Renaissance was centrally concerned with debate and
dialogue, not only among scholars, but also, and perhaps more
importantly, among and with texts. Renaissance reading practices
were active and engaged: such conversations with texts were meant
to prepare the mind for political and civic life, and the political
itself was conceived as fundamentally conversational. The humanist
idea of conversation thus theorized the relationships among
literature, politics, and history; it was one of the first modern
attempts to locate cultural production within a specific historical
and political context. The essays in this collection investigate
the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated textual
conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical,
religious, and social practices. They focus on the importance of
conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary
history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the
material and textual technologies that enabled early modern
conversations.
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