On Human Worth and Excellence

Informationen zum Autor Brian P. Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directed the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly , past president of the Journal of the History of Philosophy , and on the boards of Harvard’s I Tatti Renaissance Library and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Getty foundations and has authored many books, including Hermetica , The Book of Magic , and Magic in Western Culture . Klappentext In On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature? This I Tatti edition contains the first complete translation into English. Zusammenfassung In On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature? This I Tatti edition contains the first complete translation into English.

Product details

• Authors: Giannozzo Manetti, Giannozzo/ Copenhaver Manetti
• Assisted by: Brian P. Copenhaver (Editor), Brian P. Copenhaver (Translation), Copenhaver Brian P. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780674984585
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98458-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Literaturwissenschaft, Humanismus, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, Europäische Geschichte: Renaissance, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, HISTORY / Asia / General, Humanistische Philosophie, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Renaissance - Frührenaissance, Asien / Geschichte, Philosophie / 17.-18. Jahrhundert, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, HISTORY / Renaissance, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Asian History, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts