Title: Cosmopoiesis
First published: 2001
Description: "Cosmopoiesis means 'world-making,' and in this 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: the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: European literature, History and criticism, Italian literature, Philosophy, Renaissance, Renaissance Philosophy, Literature, history and criticism, Italian literature, history and criticism, Philosophy, renaissance
Time periods: Renaissance, 1450-1600
LC classification: PN721 .M39 2001