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100	1		_aKircher, Timothy.
245	1	0	_aBefore Enlightenment : _bPlay and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a1 online resource (303 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; _vv.326
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aThe 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aHumanism in literature.
650		0	_aHumanists-History-Europe-16th century.
650		0	_aEuropean literature-History and criticism-Renaissance, 1450-1600.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aKircher, Timothy _tBefore Enlightenment _dBoston : BRILL,c2020 _z9789004442696
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6372559 _zClick to View
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