9780226777429 - Theory As Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance di Struever, Nancy S. (29 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1992. Blue cloth covered boards with silver spine titles; jacket is lightly worn, now in Brodart cover; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 246 pages.

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG 246 pp.

Condizione: Very Good. . hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condizione: Very Good. . hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Ethics, Renaissance. Philosophy, Renaissance. 3 Kg.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0226777421.

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0226777421.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Ethics, Renaissance. Philosophy, Renaissance. 1 Kg.

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 periodPetrarch, 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.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 246 pp.

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Hardback. Condizione: New. 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.

[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).

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 255 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. KlappentextA 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 co.

Hardback. Condizione: New. 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.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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.