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  • Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IVby G. H. R. Parkinson

    Routledge 1993; US$ 41.95

    This volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. more...

  • Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unityby Giordano Bruno; Richard J. Blackwell; Robert de Lucca; Alfonso Ingegno; Karl Ameriks; Desmond M. Clarke

    Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 27.00

    Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of several of his most characteristic and important texts on causality and magic. more...

  • Marsilio Ficinoby M.J.B. Allen; Rees V.

    BRILL 2002; US$ 187.00

    This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar, philosopher and priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism and whose long-lasting influence on philosophy, love and music theory, medicine and magis extended across Europe. more...

  • The language of demons and angelsby I. Lehrich

    BRILL 2003; US$ 112.00

    This work is a modern study of Agrippa's occult philosophy as a coherent part of his intellectual work. It challenges traditional interpretations of Agrippa as an intellectual dilettante, and uses modern theory and philosophy o elucidate the intricacies of his thought. more...

  • The Cambridge Companion to Montaigneby Ullrich Langer

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 25.00

    Michel de Montaigne (1533 1592) is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. This volume explores the range of his philosophy and also examines its social and intellectual contexts. more...

  • The History of Scepticismby Richard H. Popkin

    Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 30.00

    In this third updated edition of a classic book first published in 1960, there are three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impacts should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history more...

  • Myths of Renaissance Individualismby Professor John Jeffries Martin

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00

    The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism , in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion. more...

  • Pico della Mirandolaby M. V. Dougherty

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 78.00

    A comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. more...

  • The Education of a Christian Womanby Juan Luis Vives; Charles Fantazzi

    University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 25.00

    "From meetings and conversation with men, love affairs arise. In the midst of pleasures, banquets, dances, laughter, and self-indulgence, Venus and her son Cupid reign supreme. . . . Poor young girl, if you emerge from these encounters a captive prey! How much better it would have been to remain at home or to have broken a leg of the body rather than of the mind!" So wrote the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives in a famous work dedicated to Henry VIII's daughter, Princess Mary, but intended for a wider audience interested in the education of women. Praised by Erasmus and Thomas More, Vives advocated education for all women, regardless of social class and ability. From childhood through adolescence to marriage and widowhood,... more...

  • Renaissance Scepticismsby José R. Maia Neto

    Springer 2008; US$ 239.00

    Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of a oescepticismsa in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up... more...