Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World

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David R. Castillo, Massimo Lollini
Vanderbilt University Press, 2006 - History - 358 pages
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other.

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Contents

The Telescope in the Baroque Imagination
3
The Reception of Passions de lâme
39
Technologies
61
An Unreasonable Journey? The Place of Europe
101
A Feminist Road Not Taken
123
A Dialogue
145
The Baroque Public Sphere
165
Reasons Baroque House Cervantes Master Architect
186
Sacrificial Politics in the Spanish Colonies
243
Bartolomé de las Casas on Imperial Ethics
259
Imperialism and Anthropophagy in Early Modern
279
Modernity
296
Vicos New Science between
316
Reasoning the Other
331
Index
347
Copyright

The Genealogy of the Sublime in the Aesthetics
221

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David R. Castillo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo. Massimo Lollini is Hatzantonis Distinguished Fellow in Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at the University of Oregon.

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