Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic RationalismCambridge University Press, 1997 M03 13 - 238 pages Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a "spatial" way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in thought that occurred. He describes how, while teaching and public debate continued to be based in the language arts, scientific and artistic areas came to depend on mathematical disciplines, including music, for new means and methods of discovery, and as a basis for wider sociocultural renewal. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Problematizing the language arts | 17 |
Grammarians dreams | 19 |
Grammarians nightmares | 45 |
Passages | 71 |
Rhetoric and politics | 73 |
Method and knowledge | 101 |
Mathematics music and rational aesthetics | 133 |
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