Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72231-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies

The Renaissance has a peculiar status in philosophical historiography: it tends to disappear from the dominant narrative—as Charles Schmitt famously noticed—but it also resurfaces unexpectedly in marginal reception histories. This book casts light on intellectual constellations or geographical areas, which have traditionally been considered peripheral to the emergence of the Renaissance. The case studies presented in the book explore philosophical historiography as a political practice, showing how, in times of cultural crisis or change, the scholarly rediscovery of the Renaissance often served to develop or legitimise an ideal of social, religious or moral reform. Driven by personal concerns and political choices, historiography is revealed as an act of dissent against mainstream reconstructions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Meliadò, Mario

Muratori, Cecilia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Renaissance Historiography and Political Practice, Or: The History of Philosophy as Dissent

Mario Meliadò and Cecilia Muratori

2 ‘A Tale of Many, but None of Mine’: Dionysius Andreas Freher’s Alternative Portrait of Jacob Boehme

Cecilia Muratori

3 The Renaissance in Retreat. Debating the Image of Humanist Culture in the German Early Enlightenment

Zornitsa Radeva

4 Dissenting words: Rinascimento and Risorgimento in 19th-century Italy

Alessio Cotugno

5 A Transatlantic Renaissance in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Vincenzo Botta Between Italy and the United States of America

Catherine König-Pralong

6 The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of Nationalism: Alois Dempf’s Historiography as a Practice of Intellectual Freedom

Andrea Fiamma

7 Freedom and the shaping of national culture in South American representations of the Renaissance: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn

Silvia Manzo

8 The Italian Renaissance in Post-War America: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Felix Gilbert

Iryna Mykhailova

9 The Renaissance in Soviet Interpretation: From “Progressive Revolution” to “Type of Culture” (1960s–1970s)

Iva Manova

10. Machiavelli, the Perennial Dissident

Robert Black

Bibliography

Index of Names XXX

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Meliadò is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Siegen (Germany). His research focuses on fifteenth-century schools of thought, and the history of modern philosophical historiography. He published a monograph on Heymeric of Campo and late medieval Albertism in 2018, as well as studies on Nicholas of Cusa and Victor Cousin.

Cecilia Muratori is Assistant Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Pavia (Italy). She has published on the role of mysticism for philosophical speculation (The First German Philosopher: The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel, 2016), and on the ethical implications of the distinction between humans and animals (Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s 'On Abstinence', 2020).