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There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the
Renaissance Humanists merely as readers--as interpreters
happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical
texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests
this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she
presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral
work.
Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major
Renaissance figures--Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo
Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne--was to consider theory as
practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She
notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by
Petrarch, who "relocated" ethical inquiry from a theoretical
realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience.
Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume
Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive
disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne
produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the
problems of addressing the non-inquirer as well. Struever
urges modern readers to employ both rhetorical and
philosophical analysis to reveal these Humanists' aggressive
tactics of presentation as well as their novel disciplinary
reorientation. By doing so, she suggests, we discover how
Renaissance ethical inquiry illuminates, and is illuminated
by, the modern ethical theory of such philosophers as Peirce,
Wittgenstein, Bernard Williams, and Quine.
Renaissance Humanists merely as readers--as interpreters
happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical
texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests
this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she
presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral
work.
Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major
Renaissance figures--Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo
Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne--was to consider theory as
practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She
notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by
Petrarch, who "relocated" ethical inquiry from a theoretical
realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience.
Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume
Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive
disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne
produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the
problems of addressing the non-inquirer as well. Struever
urges modern readers to employ both rhetorical and
philosophical analysis to reveal these Humanists' aggressive
tactics of presentation as well as their novel disciplinary
reorientation. By doing so, she suggests, we discover how
Renaissance ethical inquiry illuminates, and is illuminated
by, the modern ethical theory of such philosophers as Peirce,
Wittgenstein, Bernard Williams, and Quine.
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Physical description; xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Ethics, Renaissance. Philosophy, Renaissance.
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[0-226-77742-1] 1992, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 246pp. Notes, afterwords, index. Dust jacket has a closed tear on the top outside corner of the front panel. "Theory as Practice shows how major Renaissance thinkers, including Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Machiavelli, and Montaigne rejected the abstract and reductionist moralism of traditional philosophical ethics and proposed to replace it with a discourse based on the recognition that ethical practice is always conditioned by the complexities, contingencies, and uncertainties of historical existence" - William J. Bouwsma, University of California, Berkeley. Book about Ethics. Time Period Renaissance. (Philosophy). Codice articolo 148377
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Condizione: Gut. XIII, 246 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, allover very good and clean. / Leicht beriebene Jacke, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Nancy Struever's The Language of History in the Renaissance was an early and seminal contribution to the debate on the relation of rhetoric to history. In her second book on the Renaissance, she shifts her focus to ethical inquiry and its practical, or rhetorical, presence. Her examination of the work of five major figures of the period--Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne --contests accepted notions of the Renaissance Humanists as being merely hermeneuticists. At the same time, she shows how their work can be seen to gloss, or comment usefully on, the ethical theory of such modern philosophers as Peirce, Wittgenstein, Bernard Williams, and Quine. Often viewed as mere readers and interpreters of classical texts, the Renaissance Humanists in Struever's analysis appear instead as serious inquirers, rhetorically presenting their work as available practice. Struever notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who "relocated" ethical inquiry from a theoretical realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience. Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive disciplines; their strategies, she suggests, illumine and are illuminated by modern philosophy of language. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the problems of addressing the non-inquirer as well. Where Machiavelli enjoins tough-minded theorizing, Montaigne demands not an elitist skepticism, but a familiar practice which engages in tending, and repairing, a web of ordinary beliefs. The Renaissance thinkers in this account prove to be reacting against the traditional reduction of ethical inquiry to arid abstractions and a mechanical and unpersuasive moralism. Struever reanimates their inquiries to demonstrate the complex particularity of moral life. A model of erudition and insight, crossing cultures and disciplines in its innovative approach to intellectual history and rhetoric, Theory as Practice is as startling in its implications for present-day philosophy as it is compelling in its importance for Renaissance studies. - Nancy S. Struever is professor in the Department of History and the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University. ISBN 9780226777429 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 543 Original cloth with dust jacket. Codice articolo 1168603
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