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Title: Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory

Author : Brian P. Copenhaver

Pages : pages

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Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0674238265

ISBN-13 : 9780674238268

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Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory BY Brian P. Copenhaver

Read Online and Download Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory. "This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture." --James Hankins, Harvard UniversityPico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and philosophy with anyone who challenged him. Today he is best known for a short speech, The Oration on the Dignity of Man, written in 1486 but never delivered. Sometimes called a "Manifesto of the Renaissance," this text has been regarded as the foundation of humanism and a triumph of secular rationality over medieval mysticism.Brian Copenhaver upends our understanding of Pico's masterwork by re-examining this key document of modernity. An eminent historian of philosophy, Copenhaver shows that the Oration is not about human dignity. In fact, Pico never wrote an Oration .

Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory by Brian P. Copenhaver

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