Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment

by Giuseppe Mazzotta

Book Overview

Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) perspective. It is viewed as a time of individualities or it is studied in terms of disembodied ideas and abstract forms. Mazzotta calls for a new approach:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802084214
• ISBN13: 9780802084217
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"