The Unrepentant Renaissance

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  • The Unrepentant Renaissance Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Strier
  • Release Date : 2011-09-01
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 318
  • ISBN 13 : 0226777537
  • File Size : 11,11 MB

The Unrepentant Renaissance by Richard Strier PDF Summary

Book Description: Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed.The Unrepentant Renaissance counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, aiming to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with surprising, worldly, and self-assertive energies. Reviving the perspective of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Strier provides fresh and uninhibited readings of texts by Petrarch, More, Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Montaigne, Descartes, and Milton. Strier’s lively argument will stir debate throughout the field of Renaissance studies.

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