Reason and Its Others
Italy, Spain, and the New World
Published on 23. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-8265-1545-2 (ISBN)
Description
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other. We still dream early modern dreams (Reason, the Subject, the Nation, the Modern World), and we are still haunted by the void at the center of it all.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-1545-2 (9780826515452)
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Persons
David R. Castillo is Associate Professor of Spanish, the University at Buffalo. Massimo Lollini is Hatzantonis Distinguished Fellow in Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at the University of Oregon.
Content
David Castillo and Massimo Lollini; Introduction: Reason and Its Others in Early Modernity (A View from the South); Part 1. Of Walls and Windows: Containment Machines and the Drive Towards the Unknown; * Andrea Battistini, ""Galileo Galilei's Sydereus Nuncius""; * Silvia Contarini, ""Descartes in Naples: The Reception of Passions de l'ame""; * Leah Middlebrook, ""Femando de Herrera Invented the Internet: Technologies of Self-Containment in the Early Modern Sonnet""; * Bradley Nelson, ""A Ritual Practice for Modernity: Baltasar Gracian's Organized Body of Taste""; * Nathalie Hester, ""Unreasonable Travel: The Place of Europe in F. Negri's Viaggio Settentrionale""; * Dianne Dugaw and Amanda Powell, ""Baroque Sapphic Poetry: A Feminist Road Not Taken""; Part 2. Of Houses and Cities: Early Modern Spaces and the Aporias of Baroque Reason; * John Marino, ""The Foreigner and the Citizen: A Dialogue on Good Government in Spanish Naples""; * William Childers, ""The Baroque Public Sphere""; * William Egginton, ""Reason's Baroque House (Cervantes, Master Architect)""; * Julio Baena, ""Spanish Mannerist Detours in the Mapping of Reason: Around Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares""; * Anthony Cascardi, ""Genealogy of the Sublime in the Aesthetics of the Baroque""; Part 3. The West Wing: America and the Frontiers of Reason; * Fernando R. de la Flor, ""Sacrificial Politics in the Spanish Colonies""; * George Mariscal, ""Bartolome de las Casas on Imperial Ethics and the Use of Force""; * Margaret Greer, ""Imperialism and Anthropophagi: The Unthought Known""; * Fernando Ordonez, ""Reason and Utopia at the Imperial Borders: Modernity/Coloniality in the Jesuit Reducciones in Paraguay""; * Giuseppe Mazzota, ""Universal History: Vico's New Science between Antiquarians and Ethnographers"".