Autor: Jill Kraye

Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest ari …

Cultural and intellectual dynamism often stand in close relationship to the expression of viewpoints and positions that are in tension or even conflict with one another. This phenomenon has a particu …

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, t …

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders–Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes–and Outsiders–Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus …

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders–Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes–and Outsiders–Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus …

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders–Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes–and Outsiders–Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus …

This volume is devoted to the spheres in which conflict and rivalries unfolded during the Renaissance and how these social, cultural and geographical settings conditioned the polemics themselves. Thi …

This is the third and final volume of essays issuing from the Leverhulme International Network ‘Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1650’. The overall aim of t …

The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinker …

The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinker …