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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-19 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclus
The better Angels Of Capitalism
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Pages: 409
Authors: Andrew Herman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book explores, through an ethnographic examination of life stories of wealthy men, a historical analysis of the moral meanings of wealth and power in Weste
From Humanism to Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Quentin Skinner
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book f
The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England
Language: en
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Authors: Michael Ullyot
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a r
Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Gary Remer
Categories: Philosophy
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Remer offers the surprising conclusion that humanist thinking on toleration was actually founded on the classical tradition of rhetoric. It was the rhetorician'