Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
This volume offers a series of insights into the fascinating topic of errors and false opinions in early modern Europe. It explores the semantic richness of the category of 'error' in a time when such category becomes crucial to European thought and culture. During decades of increasing no...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2023
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| Series: | Knowledge and its Histories
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This volume offers a series of insights into the fascinating topic of errors and false opinions in early modern Europe. It explores the semantic richness of the category of 'error' in a time when such category becomes crucial to European thought and culture. During decades of increasing normativity in the social and religious sphere as well as in the epistemological status of disciplines, recognizing and correcting error becomes an imperative task whose importance can hardly be overestimated. The efforts at establishing religious, political, and scientific orthodoxy led philosophers, doctors, philologist, scientist, and theologians, to reconsider the very foundations of knowledge in the attempt to dispel errors. Spanning geographically from Italy to France, England, and Germany, the articles here gathered provide stimulating glimpses into one of the most fascinating, multifaceted, and controversial aspects of early modern culture. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (145 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9791221502671 9791221502688 9791221502664 979-12-215-0266-4 9791221502657 |