The Portable Renaissance Reader, Edited, and with an Introd., by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin

The Portable Renaissance Reader, Edited, and with an Introd., by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
Title The Portable Renaissance Reader, Edited, and with an Introd., by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin PDF eBook
Author James Bruce Ross (1902- Ed)
Publisher
Pages 756
Release 1965
Genre English literature
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The Portable Enlightenment Reader

The Portable Enlightenment Reader
Title The Portable Enlightenment Reader PDF eBook
Author Various
Publisher Penguin
Pages 705
Release 1995-12-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 110112797X

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The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.

The Portable Renaissance Reader

The Portable Renaissance Reader
Title The Portable Renaissance Reader PDF eBook
Author James Bruce Ross
Publisher
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Release 1953
Genre Literature
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Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics
Title Penguin Classics PDF eBook
Author Anonymous
Publisher Penguin
Pages 941
Release 2012-01-31
Genre Reference
ISBN 1101578149

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A Complete Annotated Listing More than 1,500 titles in print Authoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authors Up-to-date translations from award-winning translators Readers guides and other resources available online Penguin Classics on air online radio programs

The Promethean Illusion

The Promethean Illusion
Title The Promethean Illusion PDF eBook
Author Bob Tostevin
Publisher McFarland
Pages 273
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0786462280

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This book explores two contradictory realities: our continuing belief that nature is subject to our willful control and nature's refusal to abide by this belief. It investigates particular aspects of modern science and spotlights the impact Newtonian science had upon the Western world. It then critically assesses twentieth century developments in science, presenting a number of biological and ecological case studies that document the various limitations that the natural world places upon human knowledge. The analysis argues against programmatic proposals to control nature via genetic engineering and planet management.

From Christians to Europeans

From Christians to Europeans
Title From Christians to Europeans PDF eBook
Author Nancy Bisaha
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 379
Release 2023-06-15
Genre History
ISBN 1000882918

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Providing the first in-depth examination of Pope Pius II’s development of the concept of Europe and what it meant to be ‘European’, From Christians to Europeans charts his life and work from his early years as a secretary in Northern Europe to his papacy. This volume introduces students and scholars to the concept of Europe by an important and influential early thinker. It also provides Renaissance specialists who already know him with the fullest consideration to date of how and why Pius (1405–1464) constructed the idea of a unified European culture, society, and identity. Author Nancy Bisaha shows how Pius’s years of travel, his emotional response to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the impact of classical ethnography and other works shaped this compelling vision—with close readings of his letters, orations, histories, autobiography, and other works. Europeans, as Pius boldly defined them, shared a distinct character that made them superior to the inhabitants of other continents. The reverberations of his views can still be felt today in debates about identity, ethnicity, race, and belonging in Europe and more generally. This study explores the formation of this problematic notion of privilege and separation—centuries before the modern era, where most scholars have erroneously placed its origins. From Christians to Europeans adds substantially to our understanding of the Renaissance as a critical time of European self-fashioning and the creation of a modern "Western" identity. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the formation of modern Europe, intellectual history, cultural studies, and the history of Renaissance Europe, late medieval Italy, and the Ottoman Empire.

Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation

Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
Title Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation PDF eBook
Author Robin Healey
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 1185
Release 2011-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1442642696

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"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.