《Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror (Ideas in Context)》是Cambridge University Press出版的圖書，作者是Patrick Baker
基本介紹
- ISBN：9781107111868
- 作者：Patrick Baker
- 出版社：Cambridge University Press
- 出版時間：2015年
- 頁數：355
- 定價：$120.00
- 裝幀：Hardcover
內容簡介
This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed th...(展開全部) This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself. Patrick Baker (FAAR '13) received his PhD in History from Harvard University in 2009 and is currently a Senior Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Primarily an intellectual historian of late medieval and early modern Italy, his scholarship has focused on Renaissance humanism, the transformative reception of the classical tradition, and historiography. He has w...(展開全部) Patrick Baker (FAAR '13) received his PhD in History from Harvard University in 2009 and is currently a Senior Research Associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
