Rhetoric And Philosophy In Renaissance Humanism

Author : Jerrold E. Seigel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400878826

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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism by Jerrold E. Seigel Pdf

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla—Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first of all professional rhetoricians, completely committed to the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. He then explores the broader problem of the "external history" of humanism, and reopens basic questions about Renaissance culture. He departs from the views held by such scholars as Hans Baron and Lauro Martines and expands the conclusions suggested by Paul Oskar Kristeller. The result is a stimulating, controversial study that rejects some of the claims made for the humanists and indicates achievements and limitations. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jerrold E. Seigel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Humanism
ISBN : OCLC:926339559

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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism by Jerrold E. Seigel Pdf

Author : Edward P Mahoney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004626294

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Philosophy and Humanism by Edward P Mahoney Pdf

Author : Stephen Gersh,Bert Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402619

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Medieval and Renaissance Humanism by Stephen Gersh,Bert Roest Pdf

This collection of essays explores in an innovative way the humanist aspects of medieval and post-medieval intellectual life and their multifarious appropriation during the early modern and modern period.

Author : Winifred Bryan Horner,Michael Leff,Robert Gaines,Jean Dietz Moss,Beth S. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136688249

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Rhetoric and Pedagogy by Winifred Bryan Horner,Michael Leff,Robert Gaines,Jean Dietz Moss,Beth S. Bennett Pdf

To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present a tribute to James J. Murphy, whose scholarship and service did much to shape the field. The book will introduce new insights into western European rhetoric and its connections with English rhetoric.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521554367

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Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner Pdf

An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

Author : Gary Remer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271042824

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Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration by Gary Remer Pdf

Religious toleration is much discussed these days. But where did the Western notion of toleration come from? In this thought-provoking book Gary Remer traces arguments for religious toleration back to the Renaissance, demonstrating how humanist thinkers initiated an intellectual tradition that has persisted even to our present day. Although toleration has long been recognized as an important theme in Renaissance humanist thinking, many scholars have mistakenly portrayed the humanists as proto-Englightenment rationalists and nascent liberals. Remer, however, offers the surprising conclusion that humanist thinking on toleration was actually founded on the classical tradition of rhetoric. It was the rhetorician's commitment to decorum, the ability to argue both sides of an issue, and the search for an acceptable epistemological standard in probability and consensus that grounded humanist arguments for toleration. Remer also finds that the primary humanist model for a full-fledged theory of toleration was the Ciceronian rhetorical category of sermo (conversation). The historical scope of this book is wide-ranging. Remer begins by focusing on the works of four humanists: Desiderius Erasmus, Jacobus Acontius, William Chillingworth, and Jean Bodin. Then he considers the challenge posed to the humanist defense of toleration by Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Bayle. Finally, he shows how humanist ideas have continued to influence arguments for toleration even after the passing of humanism&—from John Locke to contemporary American discussions of freedom of speech.

Author : Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512805772

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Renaissance Humanism, Volume 3 by Albert Rabil, Jr. Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Ernesto Grassi
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041589628

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Renaissance Humanism by Ernesto Grassi Pdf

Author : Ernesto Grassi
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 080932363X

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Rhetoric as Philosophy by Ernesto Grassi Pdf

By going back to the Italian humanist tradition and aspects of earlier Greek and Latin thought, Ernesto Grassi develops a conception of rhetoric as the basis of philosophy. Grassi explores the sense in which the first principles of rational thought come from the metaphorical power of the word. He finds the basis for his conception in the last great thinker of the Italian humanist tradition, Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). He concentrates on Vico's understanding of imagination and the sense of human ingenuity contained in metaphor. For Grassi, rhetorical activity is the essence and inner life of thought when connected to the metaphorical power of the word. Originally published in English in 1980, Rhetoric as Philosophy has been out of print for some time. In his foreword to this reprint edition, Burke scholar Timothy W. Crusius rues the lack of concentrated attention to Grassi because "what he had to say about rhetoric is at least as significant as, for example, what Kenneth Burke taught us".

Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300111355

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Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition by Kathy Eden Pdf

This book poses an eloquent challenge to the common conception of the hermeneutical tradition as a purely modern German specialty. Kathy Eden traces a continuous tradition of interpretation from Republican Rome to Reformation Europe, arguing that the historical grounding of modern hermeneutics is in the ancient tradition of rhetoric.

Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 0691647658

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The Language of History in the Renaissance by Nancy S. Struever Pdf

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on recent work in linguistic theory, including that of the French structuralists. Professor Struever studies the major shift in attitudes toward language and history which the Renaissance represents. One of the essential innovations of Renaissance Humanism is the substitution of rhetoric for dialectic as the dominant language discipline; rhetoric gives the Humanists their cohesion as a lay intellectual elite, as well as the force and direction of their thought. The author accepts the current trend in classical studies, the rehabilitation of the Sophists which finds its source in Nietzsche and includes the work of Rostagni, Untersteiner, and Buccellato, to reinstate rhetoric as the historical vehicle of Sophistic insight. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025826053

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Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval political thought on the rise of the modern conception of republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of letter writing and its place in the medieval cultural context; while still others analyse the often contradictory thought of the early humanist, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who struggled to reconcile his classical learning with his medieval allegiances. In the collection as a whole humanism emerges as a literary movement drawing as heavily on patristic and medieval culture as on antiquity. Awareness of its various debts permits recognition of what humanism itself contributed to the development of western thought and ethics.

Author : Patrick Baker,Johannes Helmrath,Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110638776

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Beyond Reception by Patrick Baker,Johannes Helmrath,Craig Kallendorf Pdf

Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Author : Kaarlo Havu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000581409

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Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions by Kaarlo Havu Pdf

By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualised rhetorically and critically in a princely environment, and finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima et vita (1538). Ultimately, towards the end of his life, Vives epitomised a distinctively cognitive view of politics; he maintained that political concord was not a direct outcome of institutional or legal reform or of the spiritual transformation of the Christian world (an optimistic Erasmian interpretation) but that concord could only be upheld once the dynamics of emotions that motivated political action were understood and controlled through responsible rhetoric that respected decorum and civility.