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The Renaissance has a peculiar status in philosophical historiography: it tends to disappear from the dominant narrative—as Charles Schmitt famously noticed—but it also resurfaces unexpectedly in marginal reception histories. This book casts light on intellectual constellations or geographical areas, which have traditionally been considered peripheral to the emergence of the Renaissance. The case studies presented in the book explore philosophical historiography as a political practice, showing how, in times of cultural crisis or change, the scholarly rediscovery of the Renaissance often served to develop or legitimise an ideal of social, religious or moral reform. Driven by personal concerns and political choices, historiography is revealed as an act of dissent against mainstream reconstructions.
Contents
1 Renaissance Historiography and Political Practice, Or: The History of Philosophy as Dissent
Mario Meliadò and Cecilia Muratori
2 'A Tale of Many, but None of Mine': Dionysius Andreas Freher's Alternative Portrait of Jacob Boehme
Cecilia Muratori
3 The Renaissance in Retreat. Debating the Image of Humanist Culture in the German Early Enlightenment
Zornitsa Radeva
4 Dissenting words: Rinascimento and Risorgimento in 19th-century Italy
Alessio Cotugno
5 A Transatlantic Renaissance in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Vincenzo Botta Between Italy and the United States of America
Catherine König-Pralong
6 The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of Nationalism: Alois Dempf's Historiography as a Practice of Intellectual Freedom
Andrea Fiamma
7 Freedom and the shaping of national culture in South American representations of the Renaissance: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn
Silvia Manzo
8 The Italian Renaissance in Post-War America: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Felix Gilbert
Iryna Mykhailova
9 The Renaissance in Soviet Interpretation: From "Progressive Revolution" to "Type of Culture" (1960s-1970s)
Iva Manova
10. Machiavelli, the Perennial Dissident
Robert Black
Bibliography
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