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Humanistic Letters
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Author : Eric Adler
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Humanistic Letters written by Eric Adler and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless important thinkers, such as T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, Benedetto Croce, Werner Jaeger, and George Will. Their work became the source of heated public debates in the 1920s and early 1930s. The belligerent criticisms of Babbitt and More—composed by such famous intellectuals as Ernest Hemmingway and H.L. Mencken—have ensured that the New Humanism has seldom been properly appreciated. Humanistic Letters helps remedy this problem, by providing for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, which gets to the heart of their intellectual project.
Humanism And Christian Letters In Early Modern Iberia 1480 1630
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Author : Alejandro Coroleu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Humanism And Christian Letters In Early Modern Iberia 1480 1630 written by Alejandro Coroleu and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Even though humanism derived its literary, moral and educational predilections from ancient Greek and Roman models, it was never an inherently secular movement and it soon turned to religious questions. Humanists were, of course, brought up with Christian beliefs, regarded the Bible as a fundamental text, and many of them were members of the clergy, either regular or secular. While their importance as religious sources was undiminished, biblical and patristic texts came also to be read for their literary value. Renaissance authors who aspired to be poetae christianissimi naturally looked to the Latin Fathers who reconciled classical and Christian views of life, and presented them in an elegant manner. The essays offered in this volume examine the influence of Christian Latin literature, whether biblical, patristic, scholastic or humanistic, upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula in the period 1480 to 1630. The contributions have been organized into three thematically coherent groups, dealing with transmission, adaptation, and visual representation. Contrary to most studies on the Iberian literature of the period in which practically no essays are devoted to texts other than in Spanish, this volume successfully accommodates authors writing in Portuguese and Catalan. Likewise, a significant part of the pieces presented here is concerned with literary texts written in Latin. Moreover, it shows how the interests and preoccupations of the better-known authors of the Iberian Renaissance were also shared by contemporary figures whose choice of language may have resulted in their exclusion from the canon.
Portuguese Humanism And The Republic Of Letters
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Author : Maria Berbara
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-12-23
Portuguese Humanism And The Republic Of Letters written by Maria Berbara and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-23 with History categories.
This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.
In Defense Of Humanism
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Author : Richard A. Etlin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-13
In Defense Of Humanism written by Richard A. Etlin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-13 with Art categories.
In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is a response to the critique of traditional humanism. In simple, clear language, Richard Etlin articulates the nature of aesthetic experience through analysis of works in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, architecture, drawing, literature, and dance. Establishing categories for determining value in the arts and letters, Etlin also explores the operations of the creative process in a discussion of artistic genius, reaffirming the transcendent moral and enduring qualities in great works of art.
Letters
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Author : Isaac Abravanel
language : iw
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-02-13
Letters written by Isaac Abravanel and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Religion categories.
Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous “portraits” that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel’s assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian – in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel’s Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters
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Author : Constance M. Furey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters written by Constance M. Furey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.
Humanism And Platonism In The Italian Renaissance
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Author : James Hankins
language : en
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Release Date : 2003
Humanism And Platonism In The Italian Renaissance written by James Hankins and has been published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Uses Of Humanism
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Author : Gábor Almási
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
The Uses Of Humanism written by Gábor Almási and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a novel attempt to understand humanism as a socially meaningful cultural idiom in late Renaissance East Central Europe. Through an exploration of geographical regions that are relatively little known to an English reading public, it argues that late sixteenth-century East Central Europe was culturally thriving and intellectually open in the period between Copernicus and Galileo. Humanism was a dominant cluster of shared intellectual practices and cultural values that brought a number of concrete benefits both to the social-climber intellectual and to the social elite. Two exemplary case studies illustrate this thesis in substantive detail, and highlight the ambivalences and difficulties court humanists routinely faced. The protagonists Johannes Sambucus and Andreas Dudith, both born in the Kingdom of Hungary, were two of the major humanists of the Habsburg court, central figures in cosmopolitan networks of men of learning and characteristic representatives of an Erasmian spirit that was struggling for survival in the face of confessionalisation. Through an analysis of their careers at court and a presentation of their self-fashioning as savants and courtiers, the book explores the social and political significance of their humanist learning and intellectual strategies.
Studies In Renaissance Thought And Letters
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Author : Paul Oskar Kristeller
language : en
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Release Date : 1993
Studies In Renaissance Thought And Letters written by Paul Oskar Kristeller and has been published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Isaac Abravanel
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Author : Isaac Abravanel
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2007
Isaac Abravanel written by Isaac Abravanel and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous"portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.