The Counter-RenaissanceThis stimulating reassessment of Renaissance thought produces evidence of an intellectual revolt in the sixteenth century, led by such men as Calvin, Luther, Montaigne, and Machiavelli, that ran counter to the prevailing concepts of Christian humanism and the sovereignty of reason. The author explores the influence of this challenging movement on contemporaries and on their successors, "those enigmatic and volatile individuals whom we term the Elizabethans." Writing with impeccable scholarship, leavened by a delightful literary style, Mr. Haydn has achieved a masterpiece of intellectual history. -4e de couv. |
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... ideal and the empirically actual - that which should be and that which is . Whether the actual is but an imper- fect extension of the ideal , as with Plato ; whether it is an ordained and limited part of the creation effected by the ideal ...
... ideal and the empirically actual - that which should be and that which is . Whether the actual is but an imper- fect extension of the ideal , as with Plato ; whether it is an ordained and limited part of the creation effected by the ideal ...
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... ideal , or fights against the established order in the name of the ideal . On the other hand , like Shelley , the Romantic may dream of effecting a reconciliation between the two by the ultimate imposi- tion of the ideal upon the ...
... ideal , or fights against the established order in the name of the ideal . On the other hand , like Shelley , the Romantic may dream of effecting a reconciliation between the two by the ultimate imposi- tion of the ideal upon the ...
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... ideal , and the third the Scholastic , a further consideration of his thought reveals the distinctive difference of his emphasis . For it is clear that he endorses no intellectualistic science . He asserts that " even the contemplation ...
... ideal , and the third the Scholastic , a further consideration of his thought reveals the distinctive difference of his emphasis . For it is clear that he endorses no intellectualistic science . He asserts that " even the contemplation ...
Contents
PROLOGUE The Enigmatic Elizabethans | 1 |
2 The CounterRenaissance and the Vanity of Learning | 76 |
The CounterRenaissance and the Repeal of Universal | 131 |
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