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"Renaissance Thought and Its Sources" presents the fruits of an
extraordinary lifetime of scholarship: a systematic account of
major themes in Renaissance philosophy, theology, science, and
literature, show in their several settings. Here, in some of Paul
Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an
exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of the
Renaissance, grounded in detailed historical investigation.
All of these fourteen essays were originally delivered as
lectures. Part One identifies the classical sources of Renaissance
thought and exposes its essential physiognomy, indicating its
humanist, Aristotelian, and Platonist traditions. The next two
parts present Renaissance thought in the historical context of the
Latin and Greek Middle Ages. Part Four offers a thematic study of
Renaissance thought, examining its characteristic conceptions of
man's dignity, destiny, and grasp of truth. Part Five forms a
summary from the perspective of a central theme of Renaissance
intellectual life and of the entire Western tradition: the relation
of language to thought and the seemingly insoluble contest between
our literary and philosophical traditions.
The reader of "Renaissance Thought and its Sources" enjoys the
results of meticulous study in a concise yet comprehensive format.
Throughout, Kristeller achieves a graceful blending of sever
historical scholarship and adherence to humane values that the
editor calls "nearly a lost art in our times."
Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing
recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance
period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and
understanding of artistic, literary, scientific, and religious
movements. The importance, then, of this detailed and careful
survey of Italy's leading Renaissance philosophers and the
intricate philosophical problems of the time can scarcely be
exaggerated. Based upon the 1961 Arensberg Lectures, given at
Stanford University, this collection of essays offers a genuinely
unified interpretation of Italian Renaissance thought by describing
and evaluating the philosophies of eight pivotal figures: Petrarch,
Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Telesio, Patrizi, and Bruno. The
essays not only discuss the life, writings, and main ideas of these
eight thinkers, but also establish through a connective text, the
place each of them occupies in the general intellectual development
of the Italian Renaissance.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
"The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and
critic of the cinema. His main intellectual preoccupation during
the last years of his life was the relation between past and
present, and the relation between histories in different levels of
generality. Philosophy is concerned with the last things while
history seeks to explain 'the last things before the last.' One
after another he examined various theories of history and exposed
their strengths and weaknesses. Well written and cogently argued."
--Library Journal This edition features a new introduction by
editor Paul Oskar Kristeller of Columbia University.
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Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these
classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty,
Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance
theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as
humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of
humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early
Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the
Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface,
a new essay, and an afterword.
This volume treats a fascinating but much neglected period in the
history of ancient philosophy between the third and first centuries
BC. "Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age" is based on primary
sources: the Greek and Latin writings of the philosophers and the
fragments, paraphrases, and testimonies from their lost works. The
eight chapters discuss: Epicurus; Zeno, the founder of the Stoic
school and his successor, Cleanthes; Pyrrho, the founder of
Skepticism and Arcesilaus, the philosopher who introduced it to the
Platonic Academy; Chrysippus, the third head of the Stoic school
and its most important representative; Carneades and Philo of
Larissa, second and third representatives of Skepticism in the
Platonic Academy, respectively; Panaetius, the first leader of
Middle Stoicism; Posidonius, the second leader of Middle Stoicism;
and Antiochus of Ascalon, the head of the Academy who led it back
from Skepticism and prepared Middle Platonism, which paved the way
for Neoplatonism.
This study charts the continuing influence of medieval scholastic
thought in Renaissance civilization. In the three essays, Paul
Oskar Kristellar illustrates the way medieval ideas and issues
remained active in Renaissance philosophy, theology, literature and
in education, both secular and religious. In his first essay,
Kristeller explains the conflicts in various Renaissance
literatures - between rigorous scholastic writings and eloquent
humanist ones, between texts written in Latin and those in the
vernacular - by appealing to a notion of literary genre which
aligns different types of text with distinct audiences. The second
essay considers the influence of St Thomas Aquinas during the
Italian Renaissance, showing that he was widely read and respected
by major humanists, and contributed to the debates over the
distinction between philosophy and theology and the relative
importance of the intellect and the will. The final essay suggests
that monks and friars play a more important role in Renaissance
thought than is usually realized. They made monastic libraries
available to humanist scholars, and actively engaged in the
intellectual disputes of their time.
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