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Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion - A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos (Hardcover, New)
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Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion - A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos (Hardcover, New)
Series: Gallica
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Christine de Pizan's lifelong quest for certainty. Christine de
Pizan's Changing Opinion examines the evolution of Christine's
thought on true and false opinion. She reflected deeply on the
subject of opinion while analyzing, evaluating, challenging, and
changing her own and others' opinions in her lifelong quest for
certain truth. Parsing opinion in Christine's writings gives us
insight into her thought on controversial issues while highlighting
opinions that were and, indeed, often still are, subjective and
controversial. The first two chapters treat her definition and
description of opinion, including her conception of the thinking
mind and the arts by which that mind expresses thought; they also
follow her changingopinion about the nature and power of fortune in
the world she knew. The next three chapters treat three specific
changes in her opinions on misogyny, chivalric [or courtly] love,
and self-interest and enlightened self-interest in society. The
last chapter relates Christine's views on opinion to recent work on
subjectivity in medieval writing. DOUGLAS KELLY is Professor
Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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