Author: Rocco Rubini File Type: pdf A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic history that sought to reactivate the humanist ideals of the Renaissance, even as philosophy elsewhere progressed toward decidedly antihumanist sentiments. Bookended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy rose in reaction to the major revolutions of the time in Italy, such as national unity, fascism, and democracy. Exploring the ways its thinkers critically assimilated the thought of their northern counterparts, Rubini uncovers new possibilities in our intellectual history that antihumanism could have been forestalled, and that our postmodern condition could have been entirely different. In doing so, he offers an important new way of thinking about the origins of modernity, one that renews a trust in human dignity and the Western legacy as a whole. **Review The Other Renaissance will be of immense interest to historians of the Italian Renaissance, especially to those who wonder how humanism, despite the terms ubiquity in scholarship, became a bad word. Philosophers too, whether interested in German or Italian thought in the modern era, will benefit from Rubinis account, especially if they tend to view philosophy in a transnational context and with an eye toward historical influences. If there is a strand of philosophical thought backstitched into Italian historiography but lost to historical memory, shaped by Vico, Hegel, Gentile, and Heidegger, then The Other Renaissance is the first, necessary step toward its fruitful recovery. (James Sommerville Renaissance and Reformation) The Other Renaissance is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the Italian philosophical tradition. Well-constructed, bolstered by meticulous documentation, and presenting a highly original take on its subject, Rubinis book is an outstanding example of intellectual history at its very best. (Gary Ianziti Review of Metaphysics) This erudite and vastly illuminating book, which seeks to extend the boundaries of modern philosophy back past Descartes, offers at its core an account of interpretations of the Italian Renaissance put forward in the years 18601947. . . . In the course of telling this story, Rubini meditates on the origins and limits of modernity on the nature of humanism and the anti-humanism on the need to cultivate an affective and futural, as well as scientific, relation to the past on the undesirability of the prevailing schism between philosophy and history on the honorable character of rhetoric truly understood and on the cunning of scholars. (committee statement, Morris D. Forkosch Prize) Rubinis thought-provoking and elegantly written The Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger participates in the recent international trend in unearthing the contribution of modern Italian philosophy to Continental philosophical discourse. Given that Italian philosophy has been construed as only marginally important in the wider European context, its rediscovery and re-collocation requires, as Rubini himself rightly puts it, a thorough genealogical reconstruction. This meticulous reconstruction is achieved in Rubinis exhaustively researched book, which thus makes a fundamental contribution to the recent intellectual shift toward creating Italian theory.. . . Rubinis book more than successfully accomplishes what it sets out to achieve. It is most certainly a consistent and vivid evocation of how the Renaissance was (re)experienced by some of its leading interpreters in Italy and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger enlightens the modern-day reader by offering a broader, more comprehensive picture of the philosophical merits of historical humanisms. (Quaderni dItalianistica) Rubinis book is not just for Renaissance aficionados and historiansit is a study that sets standards of how intellectual history should be done through entering the minds of the partners in the debate, understanding the philosophical issues from the inside, locating them in the humanpersonal as well as social and political contexts, and paying attention to the shifts and changes over time. (Paul Richard Blum, Loyola University Maryland) Rubini has done something unique in this exhaustively researched, passionately argued book he has shown definitively that interpretations of Italian Renaissance intellectual life are linked to modern Italian philosophy. His work has important ramifications for the history of literature and the history of philosophy as a whole.As he demonstrates, the Italian Renaissance and twentieth-century Italian intellectual life are linked, both by subject matter (a strong focus on the ethical) and method (the prizing of dialogical, intellectually stimulating ambiguity, rather than syllogistic system-building, with the latter being the basis for Enlightenment-era historiography of philosophy). And the twentieth-century thinkers on whom Rubini is focused, Eugenio Garin and Ernesto Grassi especially, were themselves interested in the Italian fifteenth century, both as a neglected scholarly subject, consequently worthy of serious investigation, and as a source of modern philosophical reflection. No one has gone nearly as far as Rubini in developing a deep, precise, and exhaustively researched understanding of these thinkers and of these phenomena. His book will represent a touchstone, not only on the historiography of the Italian Renaissance, but also on the history of philosophy in Italy in the twentieth century. (Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University) About the Author Rocco Rubini is assistant professor of Italian literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Renaissance from an Italian Perspective An Anthology of Essays, 18601968.

Author: Clare Gorman File Type: pdf This book offers a detailed engagement between the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the contemporary Irish author Paul Howard, aka Ross OCarroll-Kelly. The book offers insightful analyses of Derridas deconstructive theory with all its concepts, non-concepts and neologisms, thus showing how they can be used in order to provide a critique of the socio-linguistic realm of Howards fictional series. Through his work, Howard set in ink a depiction of Ireland, and specifically Dublin, throughout the Celtic Tiger era and its aftermath. The book promotes a dialogue between Derrida and Howard in order to cultivate a succinct and accessible overview of critical theory. **