Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print
Lisa Jardine
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself--the historical as opposed to the figural individual--was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."
年:
2015
出版社:
Princeton University Press
语言:
english
页:
556
ISBN 10:
0691165696
ISBN 13:
9780691165691
文件:
EPUB, 24.31 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015