| ISBN: | 9780226777429 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1992 |
| Author: | Nancy S Struever |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy |
There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers-as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work.Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figures-Petrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaigne-was to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry.
Theory as Practice features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy
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Theory as Practice was written by Nancy S Struever and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Theory as Practice has 246 pages
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