Foundations of Modern Historical Thought

From Machiavelli to Vico

Paul Avis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-18961-4 (ISBN)

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The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Leibniz and Bayle on the way.

Paul Avis

Introduction: Medieval and Renaissance Harbingers of History 1. Machiavelli: History and Power 2. Bodin and Montaigne: Speculation and Introspection 3. Bacon: Towards a Science of Man 4. Hobbes: History and Reason 5. History and Philosophy on the Eve of the Enlightenment 6. Vico: The Harvest of Pre-Englightenment History. Postscript. Bibliography. Primary Texts. Secondary Studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-18961-8 / 1138189618
ISBN-13	978-1-138-18961-4 / 9781138189614
Zustand	Neuware