Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions

Kaarlo Havu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-14671-3 (ISBN)

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By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualised rhetorically and critically in a princely environment, and finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima et vita (1538). Ultimately, towards the end of his life, Vives epitomised a distinctively cognitive view of politics; he maintained that political concord was not a direct outcome of institutional or legal reform or of the spiritual transformation of the Christian world (an optimistic Erasmian interpretation) but that concord could only be upheld once the dynamics of emotions that motivated political action were understood and controlled through responsible rhetoric that respected decorum and civility.

Kaarlo Havu works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specialises in early modern intellectual history and has published on Renaissance humanism, political thought, and the history of rhetoric.

Introduction / 1. Becoming a Humanist: from Paris to Louvain (1514–1520) / 2. Conversation and the Rhetoric of Counsel (around 1520) / 3. Managing Discord: Vives on Politics (1523–1529) / 4. Redefining Rhetoric in De disciplinis (1530–1531) / 5. Rhetorical Decorum and the Functioning of the Soul (1532–1540) / Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-14671-0 / 1032146710
ISBN-13	978-1-032-14671-3 / 9781032146713
Zustand	Neuware