The Debate Over the Origin of Genius During the Italian Renaissance

The Theories of Supernatural Frenzy and Natural Melancholy in Accord and in Conflict on the Threshold of the Scientific Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12362-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1048 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brann, N L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Seeding of a Theory of Melancholy Genius: the Medical, Theological, and Humanist Legacies
2. The Platonic Revival and the Philosophical Flowering of a Theory of Melancholy Genius
3. The Aristotelian and Skeptical Revivals and their Disintegrative Impact on the Ficinian Genial Theory
4. Persisting Obstacles to a Theory of Melancholy Genius in the Later Renaissance
5. The Late Renaissance Vogue of Melancholy Genius: the Literary, Art, Occult and Philosophical Strains
6. The Problem of Melancholy Genius on the Threshold of the Scientific Revolution: the Completion of the Philosophical Dissolution
7. Conclusion

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Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noel L. Brann, Ph.D. (1965) in History and the Humanities, Stanford University, has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Tennessee. He has published two books on the Abbott Trithemius, one with Brill (1981).