This volume examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well
In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of nature.
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation an
An academically respectable description and evaluation of secular humanism is available at last. The diversity within humanism receives full recognition in this
