Interpretations of Renaissance humanism /

Table of Contents: “…Nauert -- Renaissance humanism : the rhetorical turn / Eckhard Kessler -- Literary humanism in the Renaissance / Arthur F. …”
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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism / by Seigel, Jerrold E.

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Before Enlightenment Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism. by Kircher, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Chapter 1 The Riddles of Renaissance Humanism -- 1 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Early Modern Ideas -- 2 Finders and Seekers in Renaissance Humanism -- 3 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy -- 4 Literary Modalities of Humanist Expression and Overview of Chapters -- Chapter 2 Esse et videri: To Be and to Seem (Knowledge) -- 1 Piccolomini's Dream -- 2 Quattrocento Hypocrisy: The Play of Appearances -- 3 Trecento Antecedents: Appearing and Seeming in Petrarch and Boccaccio…”
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Medieval and renaissance humanism : rhetoric, representation, and reform /

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Ancient libraries and Renaissance humanism : the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius / by Hendrickson, Thomas

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Dancing around the well : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism / by MacPhail, Eric

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Plato's persona : Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance humanism, and Platonic traditions / by Robichaud, Denis J.-J

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Joannes Sambucus and the learned image : the use of the emblem in late-Renaissance humanism / by Visser, A. S. Q. (Arnoud S. Q.)

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Holy Scripture speaks : the production and reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament

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The church in the republic : Gallicanism & political ideology in Renaissance France by Parsons, Jotham

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Text and Contexts of Ignatius Loyola's Autobiography. by McManamon, John M.

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A Humanist in Reformation Politics : Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law by Jensen, Mads L.

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Humanism and America : an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625 by Fitzmaurice, Andrew

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The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System. by Scaglione, Aldo

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Renaissance posthumanism

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Et Amicorum : In Honour of Jill Kraye. by Ossa-Richardson, Anthony

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A usable past : essays in European cultural history by Bouwsma, William J. (William James), 1923-2004

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The measure of things : humanism, humility, and mystery by Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…'Self-Assertion': From 'Ockhamism' to Renaissance Humanism; 3. Reason and Agency: Enlightenment, Kant, and Romanticism; 4. …”
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New worlds and the Italian renaissance : contributions to the history of European intellectual culture

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Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics by Bleiker, Roland

Table of Contents: “…A genealogy of popular dissent -- Rhetorics of dissent in Renaissance Humanism -- Romanticism and the dissemination of radical resistance -- Global legacies of popular dissent -- P.2. …”
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Cajetan's biblical commentaries : motive and method by O'Connor, Michael, 1963-

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Subverting Aristotle : religion, history, and philosophy in early modern science by Martin, Craig, 1972-

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The language of history in the Renaissance : rhetoric and historical consciousness in Florentine humanism by Struever, Nancy S.

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A house divided : Wittelsbach confessional court cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 by Thomas, Andrew L.

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Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441-1524) and Renaissance Alchemy : a Critical Edition of Chrysopoeia and Other Alchemical Poems, with an Introduction, English Translation and Comment... by Soranzo, Matteo

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Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther's Reformation. by Springer, Carl

Table of Contents: “…Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Lutherâ#x80;#x99;s Reformation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prolegomena -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Cicero and Christian Latin Eloquence -- Non Hominis Nomen Sed Eloquentiae -- â#x80;#x9C;Spoiling the Egyptiansâ#x80;#x9D; -- Renaissance Humanism -- Reformation Latin -- 2 â#x80;#x9C;The Real German Ciceroâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;I Love Ciceroâ#x80;#x9D; -- Optimus Philosophus -- Parrhesiastics -- 3 Cicero and Wittenberg Education -- Humanist Education and Cicero -- Lutherâ#x80;#x99;s Latin House of Learning -- Praeceptor Germaniae -- 4 â#x80;#x9C;Cicero Refused to Dieâ#x80;#x9D…”
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J.M.G. Le Clézio : a concerned citizen of the global village by Moser, Keith A.

Table of Contents: “…; Sustaining the consumer republic through advertisement and marketing; The efforts of the "happy few" to silence the majority and to impose a monolithic culture in Le Clezio's narratives; Conclusion -- Deconstructing the "genesis myth" and simulating cosmic empathy for the entire material universe; Combating the pervasive nature of the "genesis myth": (re)-conceptualizing a post-materialist world through the lens of philosophical materialism ; Cosmic humility and the existential nature of biotic egalitarianism in Le Clézio's narratives; Demystifying the values of renaissance humanism and envisioning a biocentric ethic; Conclusion -- Resisting global hegemonic domination in Le Clézio's narratives and the importance of interculturality; Indigenous efforts at maintaining autonomy and traditional cultural identities in the face of globalization; What can be learned from modern failed utopias : intercultural dialogue, creolization, and hybridity; (Re)-appropriating technology to defend the oppressed and disenfranchised; Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Postscript. …”
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A mattress maker's daughter : the Renaissance romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza by Dooley, Brendan Maurice, 1953-

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Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance. by Zerba, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…PART THREE: SKEPTICISM, POLITICS, AND RHETORIC IN THE WORKS OF CICERO, MACHIAVELLI, AND MONTAIGNE6: Skeptical Constructions of Identity in Roman and Renaissance Humanism: The Useful, the Sublime, and the Primitivist; ON APPROACHING A SKEPTICAL POLITICS; "HUMAN NATURE" AND POLITICAL DOGMA IN CICERO, MACHIAVELLI, AND MONTAIGNE; MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL SKEPTICISM (1): THE HONESTUM AND THE UTILE; MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL SKEPTICISM (2): SUBLIMITY AND PRIMITIVISM; MANIFESTATIONS OF SKEPTICISM (3): RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHARACTER AND PERSONA THEORY.…”
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A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works

Table of Contents: “…Boccaccio and the political thought of Renaissance humanism / James Hankins -- Boccaccio's humanist brigata : reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento / Timothy Kircher -- Poets prefer company : Boccaccio's portraits and the three crowns of Florence / Victoria Kirkham -- Under the cover of a green-hued book : Boccaccio's pastoral project / Jonathan Combs-Schilling -- Squarzafico's vita di Boccaccio and early modern print culture : a new model for the study of biography / Rhiannon Daniels -- Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy : notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli monti, selve, boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia de gli dei / Simon A. …”
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Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England by Eggert, Katherine

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Petrarch and Boccaccio : the Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World

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Topicality and Representation : Islam and Muslims in two Renaissance Plays. by Obaid, Hammood Khalid

Table of Contents: “…Questioning the nickname; 4.2. Renaissance humanism and the hermetic tradition; 4.3. The Earl's circle; 4.4. …”
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Philosophy As a Way of Life Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives. by Ambury, James M.

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Education, Philosophy and Politics : the Selected Works of Michael A. Peters. by Peters, Michael A. A.

Table of Contents: “…GeophilosophyAn excursus: the principle of territory and the geography of reason; Capitalism, philosophy and the state; Notes; References; CHAPTER10 Humanism, Derrida and the new humanities; Introduction; Renaissance humanism and education; Martin Heidegger's Letter on Humanism; Derrida, humanism and the new humanities; Notes; References; CHAPTER11 Politics and deconstruction: Derrida, neoliberalism and democracy to come; Introduction: politics and deconstruction; Derrida, neoliberalism and anti-Nietzscheanism: re-writing the subject; Democracy to come; Notes; References.…”
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The Origins of Nationalism : an Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany. by Hirschi, Caspar

Table of Contents: “…6.3 Purifying the German language (and the German people)6.4 The limited originality of Romantic nationalism; 7 Humanist nationalism; 7.1 Renaissance humanism -- an innovative anachronism; 7.2 Barbarising the French or how Italian humanists successfully fought reality; 7.3 The Emperor's independent supporters: humanist nationalists in Germany; 7.4 The interdependence of nationalist isolation and assimilation; 7.5 Germany -- the (yet-to-be) civilised nation; 7.6 Germany -- the authentic nation; 8 A German Emperor for the German people; 8.1 The introduction of nationality as an election criterion.…”
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Constant Minds : Political Virtue and the Lipsian Paradigm in England, 1584-1650.

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Right thinking and sacred oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome by McGinness, Frederick J., 1944-

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