Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice

Mario Meliadò is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Siegen (Germany). His research focuses on fifteenth-century schools of thought, and the history of modern philosophical historiography. He published a monograph on Heymeric of Campo and late medieval Albertism in 2018, as well as studies on Nicholas of Cusa and Victor Cousin. Cecilia Muratori is Assistant Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Pavia (Italy). She has published on the role of mysticism for philosophical speculation (The First German Philosopher: The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel, 2016), and on the ethical implications of the distinction between humans and animals (Renaissance Vegetarianism: The Philosophical Afterlives of Porphyry’s 'On Abstinence', 2020).

1 Renaissance Historiography and Political Practice, Or: The History of Philosophy as Dissent

 Mario Meliadò and Cecilia Muratori

2 ‘A Tale of Many, but None of Mine’: Dionysius Andreas Freher’s Alternative Portrait of Jacob Boehme

 Cecilia Muratori

3 The Renaissance in Retreat. Debating the Image of Humanist Culture in the German Early Enlightenment

 Zornitsa Radeva

4 Dissenting words: Rinascimento and Risorgimento in 19th-century Italy

 Alessio Cotugno

5 A Transatlantic Renaissance in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Vincenzo Botta Between Italy and the United States of America

 Catherine König-Pralong

6 The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of Nationalism: Alois Dempf’s Historiography as a Practice of Intellectual Freedom

 Andrea Fiamma

7 Freedom and the shaping of national culture in South American representations of the Renaissance: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn

 Silvia Manzo

8 The Italian Renaissance in Post-War America: Paul Oskar Kristeller and Felix Gilbert

 Iryna Mykhailova

9 The Renaissance in Soviet Interpretation: From “Progressive Revolution” to “Type of Culture” (1960s–1970s)

 Iva Manova

10. Machiavelli, the Perennial Dissident

 Robert Black



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