Translatio Studiorum

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxiv, 2263 pp. (one French article included)

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

French, English

Biographical note

Marco Sgarbi, Ph.D. (2010) in Philosophy, University of Verona, is Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He has published extensivley on Kant, Aristotelianism and the methodology of the history of philosophy including La Kritik der reinen Vernunft nel contesto della tradizione logica aristotelica (Olms, 2010), Logica e metafisica nel Kant pre-critico (Peter Lang, 2010), Immanuel Kant, Critica del Juicio (Maya, 2011), Kant on Spontaneity (Continuum, 2012), Kant e l'irrazionale (Mimesis, 2012) and The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism. Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689) (Springer, 2012).

Readership

All those interested in intellectual history, history of ideas and history of philosophy.

Preface, Marco Sgarbi
Notes on Contributors

Translatio Studiorum, Tullio Gregory

PART 1: ANCIENT TRANSLATIO STUDIORUM

Physics as Philosophy of Happiness: The Transmission of Scientific Tenets in Epicurus, Emidio Spinelli

From Aristotle to Strato of Lampsacus: The Translatio of the Notion of Time in the Early Peripatetic Tradition, Francesco Verde

The Notion of Being as Act in Neoplatonism and its Transmission in the Translatio Studiorum,
Rita Salis

PART 2: MEDIEVAL TRANSLATIO STUDIORUM

Translatio Textuum, Claudio Leonardi

Translatio Studiorum through Philosophical Terminology, Giacinta Spinosa

Translatio studiorum et instruments de travail philosophiques médiévaux à l’époque scolastique, Jacqueline Hamesse

PART 3: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN TRANSLATIO STUDIORUM

Illa litteris Graecis abdita: Bessarion, Plato, and the Western World, Eva Del Soldato

Aristotle to the Rescue: Pererius, Charron, Glanvill and Thomasius, Constance Blackwell

Cartesianism and History: From the Rejection of the Past to the “Critical History of Philosophy”, Gregorio Piaia

Dealbare Aethiopem: A Metaphor of the Translatio Studiorum to the Origins of Modernity, Marta Fattori

Descartes’s Physics vs. Fear of Death? An Endless Translatio of Thoughts and Bodies, Vasiliki Grigoropoulou

Sub specie aeternitatis: Translating Temporality in Spinoza. Problems and Interpretations, Pina Totaro

PART 4: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY TRANSLATIO STUDIORUM

From Rousseau to Kant: A Case of Translatio Iudicii, Hansmichael Hohenegger

Hegel’s Translation of Platonic “Analogy,” Valerio Rocco Lozano

Interaction Ritual Changes, Martin J. Burke

Epilogue: Translatio Studiorum in the Future, Riccardo Pozzo

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