The logical Renaissance

• Verfasst von: Ettenhuber, Katrin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The logical Renaissance
• Titelzusatz: literature, cognition, and argument, 1479-1630
• Verf.angabe: Katrin Ettenhuber
• Verlagsort: Oxford, United Kingdom
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xiv, 301 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 271-292
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888118-6
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Logik / (z)Geschichte 1479-1630
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ettenhuber, Katrin: The logical renaissance. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
• RVK-Notation: HI 1151
• K10plus-PPN: 1870096800

Abstract

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped backthat it had little to offer in the way of creative inspiration. Katrin Ettenhuber shows instead that early modern writers encountered in their study of logic a vibrantly practical art of argument and reasoning, which provided rich opportunities for imaginative engagement and artistic appropriation. Far from being moribund, logic was promulgated at school and university and in a mass of texts, including many continental Latin sources whose influence is explored here.