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The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity (Paperback): Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity (Paperback)
Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt
R883 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R149 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity (Hardcover, Digital original): Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity (Hardcover, Digital original)
Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

The Empirical Empire - Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (Hardcover): Arndt Brendecke The Empirical Empire - Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Arndt Brendecke
R2,157 Discovery Miles 21 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place - but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain's colonial rule.

Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion (Hardcover): Susanne Friedrich, Arndt Brendecke, Stefan Ehrenpreis Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion (Hardcover)
Susanne Friedrich, Arndt Brendecke, Stefan Ehrenpreis
R4,511 Discovery Miles 45 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.

Zeiten der Wachsamkeit (German, Paperback): Arndt Brendecke, Susanne Reichlin Zeiten der Wachsamkeit (German, Paperback)
Arndt Brendecke, Susanne Reichlin
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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