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Die Autoren verorten aus unterschiedlichen kulturwissenschaftlichen
Perspektiven heraus die soziale Figur des Experten in der
Vormoderne. Experten versprechen, massgeschneidertes Wissen zur
Problemlosung bereitzustellen oder zu vermitteln. Doch so sehr
Akteure den Experten vertrauen, wachst andererseits auch das
Empfinden, die eigene Handlungsautonomie aufzugeben und
fremdbestimmt zu werden. Experten sind deswegen die geborenen
Sundenbocke: Man verlangt von ihnen, die Welt einfach zu machen und
weist ihnen dafur einflussreiche soziale Sonderrollen zu. Der Band
zeigt die unterschiedlichen Momente dieser sozialen Dynamik. Er
tragt damit neue Sichtweisen in die Erforschung von
Expertenkulturen hinein, die bislang von feuilletonistischen
Debatten dominiert wird."
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano
(1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and
a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on
the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major
themes of early modern moral and political thought. Taking his
defining inspiration from Aristotle, Pontano wrote on topics such
as prudence, fortune, magnificence, and the art of pleasant
conversation, rewriting Aristotle's Ethics in the guise of a new
Latin philosophy, inscribed with the patterns of Renaissance
culture. This book shows how Pontano's rewriting of Aristotelian
ethics affected not only his philosophical views, but also his
political life and his place in the humanist movement. Drawing on
Pontano's treatises, dialogues, letters, poems and political
writings, Matthias Roick presents us with the first comprehensive
study of Pontano's moral and political thought, offering novel
insights into the workings of Aristotelian virtue ethics in the
early modern period.
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano
(1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and
a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on
the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major
themes of early modern moral and political thought. Taking his
defining inspiration from Aristotle, Pontano wrote on topics such
as prudence, fortune, magnificence, and the art of pleasant
conversation, rewriting Aristotle's Ethics in the guise of a new
Latin philosophy, inscribed with the patterns of Renaissance
culture. This book shows how Pontano's rewriting of Aristotelian
ethics affected not only his philosophical views, but also his
political life and his place in the humanist movement. Drawing on
Pontano's treatises, dialogues, letters, poems and political
writings, Matthias Roick presents us with the first comprehensive
study of Pontano's moral and political thought, offering novel
insights into the workings of Aristotelian virtue ethics in the
early modern period.
This book investigates the meanings of the notion of friendship in
the Renaissance from two perspectives, philological and
philosophical, by observing how the notion was used in a broad
spectrum of case studies of Renaissance culture. Each chapter
highlights the ways in which authors of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries (writers, philosophers, philologists,
politicians, etc.) appropriated Greek and Latin paradigms of
friendship, on the one hand, applying them to understand their own
social and political context while, on the other hand, they created
new paradigms of friendship in both the public and private spheres.
Each chapter develops an argument on the notion of friendship
starting from the investigation of a particular context and
creating a network of connections between words related to
friendship, such as speaking sincerely (parrhesia), flattery,
justice, love, pleasure, good, utility, virtue, good life, and
truth, in both the private and public domains. The writers
addressed in the various chapters are - with regard to the ancients
- Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plutarch, Cicero and Seneca and -
among the moderns - Machiavelli, Montaigne, Thomas More, Erasmus,
Juan de Mariana, Feliciano Silvestri, Johannes Caselius, the
members of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, and the authors of
Renaissance emblem books.
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