Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (eBook)

John M. Headley (Autor)

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2019
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19452-3 (ISBN)

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Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political concerns of that tumultuous era. John Headley uses Campanella's life and works to open a window into this complex period. He not only explicates the frequently contradictory texts of a prolific author but also situates Campanella's writings amidst the larger currents of European thought.For all its obscurely magical and astrolgocial intricacies, Campanella's entire intellectual endeavor expresses an effort to impose a distinctive order and direction upon the major issues and forces of the age different from that which was shortly to prevail with the new Galilean science and the Leviathan state. In the process of identifying and engaging these issues and imparting in some instances something of his own, he managed to mobilize and deploy many of the salient principles of late medieval and Renaissance culture, often cast in a curiously modern hue and aligned with the new forces of the age. Indeed, modern and antique, new and old juxtapose violently in the person of this reformer who combines an encyclopedic comprehensiveness of intellect with an appalling intensity of will. He is a man who strove to destabilize the regnant forces of what he identified as tyranny, sophistry, and hypocrisy and to shake the world into a new order. In this book, Headley invites readers to look anew at this mercurial figure and at the turbulent times in which he lived.John M. Headley is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored studies of Luther, Thomas More, the Emperor Charles V, and San Carlo Borromeo.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Aggiornamento • Agostino Borromeo • Anabaptists • Antonio Barberini • Apocalypticism • Apostolici Regiminis • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Astrology • Atheism • Averroes • Averroism • Barberini family • Bernardino Telesio • Blaise Pascal • Calabria • cardinal mazarin • Carlo Ginzburg • Censure • Cesare Borgia • Christendom • Christianity • Clergy • Confessio Fraternitatis • Cosimo de' Medici • Council of Vienne • Counter-Reformation • Democritus • De Monarchia • Dominican order • Empiricism • Fra Dolcino • Francis Bacon (artist) • Franciscans • Francisco de Vitoria • friar • Galileo affair • Gallicanism • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition • Giovanni Botero • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • Giovanni Villani • Girolamo Savonarola • God • Heresiarch • Heresy • Inductivism • Italian renaissance • Jansenism • Joachim of Fiore • John Chrysostom • Jovinian • Lactantius • Leonardo Bruni • Lord of the World • Machiavellianism • Marsilio Ficino • mendicant • Mendicant orders • Menocchio • Monasticism • Neoplatonism • Niccolò Machiavelli • Paolo Sarpi • papal primacy • Papal States • pelagianism • pericope • petrarch • Philosophy • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Pietro Pomponazzi • Politique • Pontiff • Pope • Pope Boniface VIII • Pope Gregory IX • Pope Paul V • Pope Sixtus V • Pope Urban VIII • predestination • Protestantism • Publication • Puritans • Pythagoreanism • Religious order • Renaissance Papacy • Renaissance Philosophy • Rosicrucianism • Society of Jesus • the new science • theocracy • Theology • The Philosopher • The Pursuit of the Millennium • Thomas Aquinas • Thomas Hobbes • tommaso campanella • Universal monarchy • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19452-1 / 0691194521
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19452-3 / 9780691194523