Reformation of Common Learning

Post-Ramist Method and the Reception of the New Philosophy, 1618 - 1670
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-955338-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

Ramism was the most innovative and disruptive educational reform movement to sweep through the international Protestant world in the latter sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During the 1620s, the Thirty Years' War destroyed the network of central European academies and universities which had generated most of this innovation. Students and teachers, fleeing the conflict in all directions, transplanted that tradition into many different geographical and cultural contexts in which it bore are wide variety of interrelated fruit. Within the Dutch Republic, post-Ramist method played a crucial role in the rapid assimilation of Cartesianism into a network of thriving young academies and universities. From England to east-central Europe, the tradition was no less important in accelerating the reception of Baconianism. In the easternmost outpost of the Reformed world in Transylvania, the displaced tradition generated a final flourishing of philosophical innovation which exercised a formative influence on the young Leibniz. The failure of all of these efforts to assemble the fruits of this tradition into an encyclopaedic synthesis marks a major watershed in Western intellectual history. The Reformation of Common Learning brings together all of these aspects of the tradition in a manner which roots them in deeper historical developments and relates a series of far-flung and poorly understood developments together in new ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hotson, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Status quo ante bellum: Reformed Germany as Protestant Europe's Pedagogical Laboratory

- Part I: The Thirty Years War and the Dutch Golden Age: Post-Ramist method and early 'Cartesianism', 1620-1670

- 2: Preamble: Philosophy during Leiden's first golden age, 1575-1618

- 3: Transformation: Ramism, artisanal learning, and the mechanical philosophy, 1618-1639

- 4: Transplantation: a transfer of pedagogical leadership, 1618-1660

- 5: Reception and Dissemination: German Reformed roots of 'Dutch Cartesianism', 1640-1670

- Part II: The Reformed diaspora and the Hartlib circle: Post-Ramist method and mid-century 'Baconianism', 1630-1670

- 6: Dissemination: The Reformed diaspora and the Hartlib circle

- 7: Form and Function: Post-Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia

- 8: Sources and Methods: Post-Ramist Pedagogy and Baconian Natural Philosophy

- Part III: Post-Ramist encyclopaedism in post-war Europe: Leibniz and the end of an era, 1630-1716

- 9: Reception: the fortuna of the Encyclopaedia

- 10: Emendation: the pursuit of a new encyclopaedia, 1630-1716

- 11: Failure and transformation: the encyclopaedia turned inside out

- 12: Summary, conclusions, and prospects

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College. This book illustrates the convergence of several of his main areas of interest, including the gradually expanding reform movements of the post-Reformation period, the intellectual geography of the Thirty Years' War, and prospects for rewriting aspects of intellectual history from the bottom up with the assistance of large pools of digitally assembled and analysed data.