|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism
|
Buy Now
Before Enlightenment - Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,732
Discovery Miles 37 320
|
|
|
Before Enlightenment - Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 326
Expected to ship within 18 - 22 working days
|
In Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism,
Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance
humanist philosophy. Literary qualities - tone, voice, persona,
style, imagery - composed a core of their philosophizing, so that
play and illusion, as well as rational certainty, formed
pre-Enlightenment ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics.
Before Enlightenment takes issue with the long-standing view of
humanism's philosophical mediocrity. It shows new features of
Renaissance culture that help explain the origins not only of
Enlightenment rationalists, but also of early modern novelists and
essayists. If humanist writings promoted objective knowledge based
on reason's supremacy over emotion, they also showed awareness of
one's place and play in the world. The animal rationale is also the
homo ludens.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
