Theory as practice : ethical inquiry in the Renaissance / Nancy S. Struever.
By: Struever, Nancy S
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992Description: xiii, 246 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226777421 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226777429Subject(s): Ethics, Renaissance | Philosophy, RenaissanceDDC classification: 170/.94/09023 LOC classification: BJ271 | .S77 1992Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
Introduction: The uses of the present -- I. The relocation of inquiry. Petrarchan ethics : inventing a practice ; Afterword: Familiar letters after Petrarch : a practice practiced -- II. Internal discipline. Introduction ; Metaphoric morals : ethical implications of Cusanus's use of figure ; Lorenzo Valla's grammar of subject and object : an ethical inquiry ; Afterword: The figuration of Aristotle -- III. External address. Introduction ; Machiavelli : narrative as argument ; Montaigne's web of belief ; Afterword 1: Purity as danger : Gramsci's Machiavelli, Croce's Vico ; Afterword 2: Purity as danger : belief after Montaigne.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The uses of the present -- I. The relocation of inquiry. Petrarchan ethics : inventing a practice ; Afterword: Familiar letters after Petrarch : a practice practiced -- II. Internal discipline. Introduction ; Metaphoric morals : ethical implications of Cusanus's use of figure ; Lorenzo Valla's grammar of subject and object : an ethical inquiry ; Afterword: The figuration of Aristotle -- III. External address. Introduction ; Machiavelli : narrative as argument ; Montaigne's web of belief ; Afterword 1: Purity as danger : Gramsci's Machiavelli, Croce's Vico ; Afterword 2: Purity as danger : belief after Montaigne.
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