In this latest volume of A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson presents a lively and accessible introduction to European philosophy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Philosophy in the Reformation focuses on the parallel and intertwining emergence of humanism and of religious reform, as figures like Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin remade the intellectual and spiritual life of Europe. In the first three parts of the book, philosophical developments in central Europe, France, and Britain are examined. A wide range of topics and controversies are discussed, from debates over free will to the legitimacy of tyrannicide. This was also the time of the Northern Renaissance, which saw a resurgence of ancient concepts like skepticism and atomist theories of matter. The volume's final section charts the Catholic reaction to these epochal events in the Counter-Reformation, and especially the ideas of Spanish thinkers like Molina and Suarez. Quite a few familiar figures are discussed, such as Montaigne and Copernicus. But as always in this series, Adamson lavishes attention on fascinating figures who are often ignored in the history of philosophy, like John Dee, Robert Fludd, and Oliva Sabuco (who is just one of numerous women intellectuals covered). Another feature of the book is its attention to literature and the arts: the reader will learn how the achievements of Duerer, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Cervantes relate to philosophical currents of the time. The eighth volume in the A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series takes us to the threshold of the early modern era and sets the stage for the developments that unfolded during the Enlightenment.
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Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King's College London from 2000-2012 and retains an affiliation there, but his main position is at the LMU in Munich. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast.
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Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic PhilosophyProfessor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
Preface
Acknowledgements
Dates
Map
Germany and the Low Countries
1: European Disunion: Introduction to the Reformation
2: Strong, Silent Type: The Printing Press
3: Lords of Language: Northern Humanism
4: Opposites Attract: Nicholas of Cusa
5: Books That Last Forever: Erasmus
6: One Way or Another: Northern Scholasticism
7: Faith, No More: Martin Luther
8: Take Your Choice: The Erasmus-Luther Debate
9: Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted: Two Renaissance Artworks
10: More Lutheran than Luther: Philip Melanchthon
11: No Lord but God: the Peasants' War and Radical Reformation
12: Slowly But Surely: Huldrych Zwingli
13: We Are Not Our Own: John Calvin
14: I Too Can Ask Questions: Protestant Scholasticism
15: Perhaps Not Wrong: Cornelius Agrippa
16: Just Add Salt: Paracelsus and Chemistry
17: The Acid Test: Theories of Matter
18: Born to Be Contrary: Toleration in the Netherlands
19: Everything is Mine, and Nothing: Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism
20: The World Doesn't Revolve Around You: Copernicus
21: Best of Both Worlds: Tycho Brahe
22: Music of the Spheres: Johannes Kepler
France
23: Do As the Romans Did: Early French Humanism
24: Pearls of Wisdom: Marguerite of Navarre
25: Seriously Funny: Rabelais
26: Word Perfect: Logic and Language in Renaissance France
27: Life Is Not Enough: Medicine in Renaissance France
28: Make it Simple: Peter Ramus
29: Divide and Conquer: Ramism
30: Believe at Your Own Risk: Toleration in France
31: Constitutional Conventions: the Huguenots
32: One to Rule Them All: Jean Bodin
33: Pen Pals: Later French Humanism
34: Not Matter, But Me: Montaigne
35: What Do I Know? French Skepticism
36: The Tenth Muse: Marie Le Jars de Gournay
England and Scotland
37: God's is the Quarrel: The English Reformation
38: To Kill a King: The Scottish Reformation
39: Write Till Your Ink Be Dry: British Humanism
40: No Place Will Please Me So: Thomas More
41: With Such Perfection Govern: English Political Thought
42: The World's Law: Richard Hooker
43: Heaven-Bred Poesy: Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
44: Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? William Shakespeare
45: A Face Without a Heart: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Individualism
46: Brave New World: Shakespeare's Tempest and Colonialism
47: Weird Sisters: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Witchcraft
48: She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence: Women's Spiritual Literature
49: I'll Teach You Differences: British Scholasticism
50: If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art: John Dee
51: Nature's Mystery: English Renaissance Science
52: The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection: Theories of Vision
53: Metal More Attractive: William Gilbert and Magnetism
54: Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores: Robert Fludd
The Counter-Reformation
55: Don't Give Up Pope: Catholic Reformation
56: Cancel Culture: The Inquisition
57: Longitudinal Studies: Exploration and Science
58: Lambs to the Slaughter: Debating the New World
59: Marketplace of Letters: Iberian Humanism
60: The Dark Night Rises: Spanish Mysticism
61: Band of Brothers: the Jesuits
62: Not Doubting Thomas: the Aquinas Revival
63: Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism
64: Could've, Would've, Should've: Free Will in the Second Scholastic
65: Better Than Nothing: Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic
66: The Price is Right: Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic
67: By Appointment Only: Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic
68: Touch Me With Your Madness: Cervantes' Don Quixote
69: Take Your Medicine: Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani
70: Outsider Philosophy: The Cheese and the Worms
71: Cardinal Rule: Robert Bellarmine
72: Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition
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