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The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
Rocco Rubini
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Description for The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
Hardcover. A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. This book intends to bring them back together. It offers a new way of thinking about the origins of modernity, one that renews a trust in human dignity and the Western legacy as a whole. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 716.
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic history that sought to reactivate the humanist ideals of the Renaissance, even as philosophy elsewhere progressed toward decidedly antihumanist sentiments. Bookended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy arose in reaction to the ... Read more
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic history that sought to reactivate the humanist ideals of the Renaissance, even as philosophy elsewhere progressed toward decidedly antihumanist sentiments. Bookended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy arose in reaction to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226186139
SKU
V9780226186139
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About Rocco Rubini
Rocco Rubini is assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Renaissance from an Italian Perspective: An Anthology of Essays, 1860-1968.
Reviews for The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
"Rubini's book is not just for Renaissance aficionados and historians-it is a study that sets standards of how intellectual history should be done: through entering the minds of the partners in the debate, understanding the philosophical issues from the inside, locating them in the human/personal as well as social and political contexts, and paying attention to the shifts and changes ... Read more