The polymath a cultural history from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with...
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New Haven ; London
Yale University Press
2020 ©2020
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Plates
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is a Polymath?
- 1. East and West
- 2. The Age of the ‘Renaissance Man’, 1400–1600
- 3. The Age of ‘Monsters of Erudition’, 1600–1700
- 4. The Age of the ‘Man of Letters’, 1700–1850
- 5. The Age of Territoriality, 1850–2000
- 6. A Group Portrait
- 7. Habitats
- 8. The Age of Interdisciplinarity
- Coda: Towards a Third Crisis
- Appendix: 500 Western Polymaths
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index