TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kircher,Timothy
TI  - Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism
T2  - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series
SN  - 9789004442702
AV  - PN731 .K573 2021 
U1  - 144 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Humanism in literature
KW  - Humanists-History-Europe-16th century
KW  - European literature-History and criticism-Renaissance, 1450-1600
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 -- 4 Walking Knowledge: The Transience and Accumulation of Perception -- 5 Sixteenth-Century Simulations -- Chapter 3 The Procession of Virtue (Ethics) -- 1 Reason as the Guide to Virtue: Finding the Moral Way -- 2 The Virtues of Pedagogy -- 3 The Morality of Rational Love -- 4 Fortune's Challenge to Virtue -- 5 Laying Down the Moral Habits: Dialogues of the Dead -- 6 Fortune and Folly in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 4 The Beauty of the Whole (Metaphysics) -- 1 Poetica Theologia to Poetica Metaphysica -- 2 Prometheus the Light-Bringer: The Mediator between Humanity and Divinity -- 3 Approaching the Sun: The Upper Reaches of Humanist Conceptions of Reality -- 4 Chaos Theory: The Circulation of Atomism -- 5 The Limits of Vision beneath the Earthly Veil -- 6 Ontological Rupture: Momus as Alter-Prometheus -- 7 The Swiftness of Time: Playing with Plutarch -- Chapter 5 The End of Humanism - and the Humanities? -- 1 Questions of Humanism and the Humanities -- 2 The End in Rabelais's Cinq livres / Five Books -- 3 Bembo's Walking Knowledge and the Limited Outlook -- 4 The Turnings of Self-Study as Humanism's Physics and Metaphysics -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The literary qualities of humanists' writings convey how play and illusion helped form their ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy
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