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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- Book Title
- The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humaniti...
- ISBN
- 9781108833400
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108833403
ISBN-13
9781108833400
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050089141
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
350 Pages
Publication Name
Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities : an Intellectual History, 1400-1800
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Italy, Asia / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-010804
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
'An engrossing story about how modernity was born when it learned to read and write the word. The parallels between the Italian Renaissance and our contemporary present are stunning. As before, so now: information glut and a rapidly evolving mediascape are challenges that only a new investment in critical sense-making - 'philology,' broadly understood - can meet. Celenza's call for a reinvigorated culture of the humanities today is both historically rich and prescient. His book is sure to bring a new dimension to the debates about the uses and reach of culture today.' James I. Porter, University of California, Berkeley
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
945/.05
Table Of Content
1. Philology, the Italian renaissance, and authorship; 2. Lorenzo Valla, philology, emotion; 3. Losing your identity: Angelo Decembrio; 4. Trust and authenticity; 5. Pursuing a love of knowledge; 6. Shaping knowledge; 7. Forgetting philology: Rene Descartes; 8. Certainty. Skepticism; 9. Echoes.
Synopsis
This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the European Enlightenment, this book touches on how people in the past changed their reading habits, and how technology changed their perception of truth., Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology - the invention of printing with moveable type - fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert - as well as many lesser-known scholars - challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.
LC Classification Number
DG445.C378 2021
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