Knowledge and religion in early modern Europe
Subtitle: studies in honor of Michael Heyd
By: edited by Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, Tamar Herzig
Contributors: Heyd, Michael, honouree
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- volume 219
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9789004225640; 9789004231481
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion); History
Description: "The interplay between knowledge and religion forms a pivotal component of how early modern individuals and societies understood themselves and their surroundings. Knowledge of the self in pursuit of salvation, humanistic knowledge within a confessional education, as well as inherently subversive knowledge acquired about religion(s) offer instructive instances of this interplay. To these are added essays on medical knowledge in its religious and social contexts, the changing role of imagination in scientific thought, the philosophical and political problems of representation, and attempts to counter Enlightenment criteria of knowledge at the end of the period, serving here as multifaceted studies of the dynamics and shifts in sensitivity and stress in the interplay between knowledge and religion within evolving early modern contexts."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.