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Early Modern Aristotle : On the Making and Unmaking of Authority

Cover -- Early Modern Aristotle -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Comparing Philosophers: How to Elevate or Undermine an Authority -- Chapter 2. Comparationes and External Aids -- Chapter 3. Learning, Protecting, Advertising: Comparationes in University Ha...

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Main Author: Del Soldato, Eva (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2020
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6179397
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Cover -- Early Modern Aristotle -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Comparing Philosophers: How to Elevate or Undermine an Authority -- Chapter 2. Comparationes and External Aids -- Chapter 3. Learning, Protecting, Advertising: Comparationes in University Halls -- Chapter 4. Customizing Authorities: Legends, Anecdotes, Fictions -- Chapter 5. If Aristotle Were Alive, or the Paradoxes of Authority -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Preface by Alfonso Pandolfi to His Comparatio -- Appendix B. Federico Pendasio's Comparatio -- Appendix C. Skeptical Attitudes Toward Philosophical Concordiae -- Appendix D. Francesco Vimercato's De Dogmatibus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
In Early Modern Aristotle, Eva Del Soldato examines treatises, legends, proverbs, fictions, and rhetorical tropes to trace how recourse to the authority of Aristotle shaped intellectual discourse even during a period that challenged and overturned much of his teaching
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
ISBN:9780812296822