Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice /

The Renaissance has a peculiar status in philosophical historiography: it tends to disappear from the dominant narrative-as Charles Schmitt famously noticed-but it also resurfaces unexpectedly in marginal reception histories. This book casts light on intellectual constellations or geographical areas...

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Other Authors: Meliadò, Mario (Editor), Muratori, Cecilia (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies ; 2.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: B775

Table of Contents:
  • 1 Renaissance Historiography and Political Practice, Or: The History of Philosophy as Dissent
  •   Mario Meliadò and Cecilia Muratori
  • 2 'A Tale of Many, but None of Mine': Dionysius Andreas Freher's Alternative Portrait of Jacob Boehme
  •   Cecilia Muratori
  • 3 The Renaissance in Retreat. Debating the Image of Humanist Culture in the German Early Enlightenment
  •   Zornitsa Radeva
  • 4 Dissenting words: Rinascimento and Risorgimento in 19th-century Italy
  •   Alessio Cotugno
  • 5 A Transatlantic Renaissance in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Vincenzo Botta Between Italy and the United States of America
  •   Catherine König-Pralong
  • 6 The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of Nationalism: Alois Dempf's Historiography as a Practice of Intellectual Freedom
  •   Andrea Fiamma
  • 7 Freedom and the shaping of national culture in South American representations of the Renaissance: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn
  •   Silvia Manzo
  • 8 The Italian Renaissance in Post-War America: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Felix Gilbert
  •   Iryna Mykhailova
  • 9 The Renaissance in Soviet Interpretation: From "Progressive Revolution" to "Type of Culture" (1960s-1970s)
  •   Iva Manova
  • 10. Machiavelli, the Perennial Dissident
  •   Robert Black
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names XXX.