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Humanism - philosophical and literary movement in which man and his capabilities are the central concern. The term was originally restricted to a point of view prevalent among thinkers in the Renaissance. The distinctive characteristics of Renaissance humanism were its emphasis on classical studies, or the humanities, and a conscious return to classical ideals and forms. The movement led to a


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    History of Humanism » Read Now

    by Giuseppe Toffanin, Elio Gianturco. 358 pgs.

    ...HISTORY OF HUMANISM GIUSEPPE TOFFANIN HISTORY OF HUMANISM English Translation, Foreword and Augmented Bibliography...to present to American readers Toffanin History of...
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    Humanism as a Philosophy » Read Now

    by Corliss LaMont. 376 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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    Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy » Read Now

    by Jill Kraye, M. W. F. Stone. 270 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    This is an original and timely volume that examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well as intellectual trends, this collection of essays portrays the humanist movement as an essential part of the...
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    In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni » Read Now

    by Ronald G. Witt. 565 pgs.

    This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and...
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    Modernism, Narrative and Humanism » Read Now

    by Paul Sheehan. 234 pgs.

    Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine Modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. According to Sheehan, Modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key Modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how...
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    The Philosophy of Humanism and of Other Subjects » Read Now

    by Viscount R. B. Haldane. 308 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMANISM THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMANISM AND OF OTHER SUBJECTS BY VISCOUNT HALDANE YALE...PREFACE IF I had called this book The Philosophy of Humanism without...
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    Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism » Read Now

    by Carol Cosman, Tzvetan Todorov. 254 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist...
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    True Humanism » Read Now

    by Jacques Maritain. 304 pgs.

    ...-ii- JACQUES MARITAIN TRUE HUMANISM NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1938 PRINTED...vii INTRODUCTION: HEROISM AND HUMANISM xi I. THE TRAGEDY OF HUMANISM 1 II. A NEW...
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    Medieval Humanism » Read Now

    by Gerald Groveland Walsh. 106 pgs.

    ...MEDIEVAL HUMANISM THE CHRISTENDOM SERIES CATHOLICISM...By JOHN J. OCONNOR MEDIEVAL HUMANISM By GERALD G. WALSH OTHER...SERIES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER MEDIEVAL HUMANISM By...
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    Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century » Read Now

    by Robert Black. 489 pgs.

    The claim, central to many interpretations of the Renaissance, that humanists introduced a revolution in the classroom is refuted in Robert Black's masterly survey, based on over 500 manuscript school books. He shows that the study of classical texts in schools reached a high point in the twelfth...
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    On Humanism » Read Now

    by Richard Norman. 177 pgs.

    Drawing on a colourful range of examples, including Aristotle, Nietzsche, Darwin, Primo Levi, Virginia Woolf & Graham Swift, 'On Humanism' reflects on a much discussed but little understood philosophical viewpoint.
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    Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy (ca. 1680-1740) » Read Now

    by Ruth Hill. 296 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial...
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    Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform » Read Now

    by Stephen Gersh, Bert Roest. 309 pgs.

    This volume discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, the self-representation of the intellectual, the representation of...

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