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Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward
Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present
selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it
brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental
reorientation of the categories of thought in the Latin West, c.
1100 AD, a thesis that dominated his work from the 1960s onwards.
The volume differs from the usual Variorum collection in that much
of the material is hitherto unpublished, distributed only in
'samizdat' form to Cranz's friends and colleagues. Nancy Struever
has collated and edited the versions of these papers, and supplied
the necessary annotation for his references. It includes, too, some
of the research related to his editions of the Late Antique
Aristotelian commentator, Alexander Aphrodisiensis, and his early
research on the reception of Classical and early Christian
political thought, demonstrating the pertinence of this to the
reorientation thesis. Cranz's argument, centering on Anselm's
reading of Augustine, and Abelard's of Boethius, but dealing with
Renaissance and Reformation figures such as Petrarch and Valla,
Cusanus and Luther, Nifo and Zabarella, claims a reorientation in
speculative genres of the most basic premises of the relations of
mind, language, and reality. Cranz's meticulous close readings of
the texts make the case that the reorientation was so deep and
thorough as to problematise our modern readings of Hellenic
thinkers such as Aristotle, and so radical as to be 'almost
invisible' to the Medieval and post-Medieval thinkers. The
definitions and distinctions of thematics in this collection are of
intrinsic interest, then, to Classical and Late Antique, Medieval,
Renaissance, and Early Modern intellectual historians. Indeed,
Cranz's work vindicates serious intellectual historical inquiry as
indispensable to our understanding of the basic motives and
accomplishments of the culture of Pre-Modernity.
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