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Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy - A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6 (Hardcover)
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Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy - A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6 (Hardcover)
Series: A History of Philosophy
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Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the
Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson
presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers
and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the
Italian Renaissance. First he traces the development of philosophy
in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of
Damascus in the eighth century to the late Byzantine scholars of
the fifteenth century. He introduces major figures like Michael
Psellos, Anna Komnene, and Gregory Palamas, and examines the
philosophical significance of such cultural phenomena as iconoclasm
and conceptions of gender. We discover the little-known traditions
of philosophy in Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian. These chapters
also explore the scientific, political, and historical literature
of Byzantium. There is a close connection to the second half of the
book, since thinkers of the Greek East helped to spark the humanist
movement in Italy. Adamson tells the story of the rebirth of
philosophy in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We
encounter such famous names as Christine de Pizan, Niccolo
Machiavelli, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo, but as always in this
book series such major figures are read alongside contemporaries
who are not so well known, including such fascinating figures as
Lorenzo Valla, Girolamo Savonarola, and Bernardino Telesio. Major
historical themes include the humanist engagement with ancient
literature, the emergence of women humanists, the flowering of
Republican government in Renaissance Italy, the continuation of
Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy alongside humanism, and
breakthroughs in science. All areas of philosophy, from theories of
economics and aesthetics to accounts of the human mind, are
featured. This is the sixth volume of Adamson's History of
Philosophy Without Any Gaps, taking us to the threshold of the
early modern era.
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