Art of Philosophy (eBook)

Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment

Susanna Berger (Autor)

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2017
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8512-1 (ISBN)

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Susanna Berger is assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California.

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The first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern periodDelving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history.Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Leonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Durer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "e;plural image,"e; a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy.Featuring previously unpublished prints and drawings from the early modern period and lavish gatefolds, The Art of Philosophy reveals the essential connections between visual commentary and philosophical thought.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 30 color illus. 169 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Accademia dei Lincei • adage • Aesthetics • alba amicorum • Allegory • Analogy • Annotation • Anthropomorphism • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • ART • Art Critic • Art History • Averroes • Benvenuto Cellini • Bosse • Calligraphy • Categorical Proposition • Contemporary Philosophy • De Cive • De humani Corporis fabrica • De Motu (Berkeley's essay) • Desiderius Erasmus • Disputation • Dissertation • drawing • Drer • Duns Scotus • early modern period • Early modern philosophy • Empiricism • engraving • Engravings • erudition • escriptio • Essay • Explanation • Fine Art • Form of life (philosophy) • Fraktur • friar • friendship albums • Frontispiece • Genre • George Lakoff • Girard Desargues • Hieronymus Andreae • Iconography • Illustration • Imagery • Imagines (work by Philostratus) • Instance (computer science) • Institutio Oratoria • Intellectual history • John Bulwer • Justus Winkelmann • Lecture • lecture notebooks • Leviathan • Liberal arts education • Logic • Logicae universae typus • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Manuscript • Manuscripts • Marin Mersenne • Medieval Philosophy • Mental representation • Metaphor • Metaphysics • Metoposcopy • mnemonic printed images • Modes of persuasion • Moral Philosophy • narrative • Natural Philosophy • Nicomachean Ethics • Paris philosophy notebooks • Pedagogy • Philosopher • Philosophes • Philosophical Explanations • philosophical images • Philosophical investigations • philosophical knowledge • philosophical theory • philosophical thought • philosophical understanding • Philosophy • Philosophy Now • Pietro da Cortona • plural images • Poetry • Potentiality and actuality • printing • proverb • Quintilian • reason • rhetoric • rhetorical device • Robert Fludd • SCHOLASTICISM • S. (Dorst novel) • Siegmund Jacob Apin • Solecism • Some Thoughts Concerning Education • Sophist • Sophistical Refutations • Special Collections • square of opposition • still life • syllogism • Teaching Philosophy • Term logic • The Dissertation • Theodor de Bry • theory • Theory of Forms • The Philosopher • The Praise of Folly • The School of Athens • Thomas Aquinas • Thomas Hobbes • Thought • treatise • Truth and Method • Typus • visual art • visual commentary • Visual images • Visualization • Visual Representation • Willibald Pirckheimer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8512-4 / 1400885124
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8512-1 / 9781400885121