The theological origins of modernity [electronic resource] / Michael Allen Gillespie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 386 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 190 22
LOC classification:
  • B791 .G55 2008eb
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Contents:
The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-361) and index.

The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.

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