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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

By: Nicholas Guardiano

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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

By: Nicholas Guardiano

Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich complexity of immediate experience, the possibility of discovering new aesthetic features about the world, and the transformative potential of art as an organic expression. This book presents the philosophy in its relationship to its historical roots in the philosophic and artistic traditions of nineteenth-century North America. In this multidisciplinary study, Nicholas L. Guardiano brings together a philosophic and literary figure in Ralph Waldo Emerson, the scientifically minded philosopher Charles S. Peirce, and the plastic arts in the form of American landscape painting. Guardiano evaluates this constellation of philosophers and artists in global perspective as it relates to other historical theories of metaphysics and aesthetics, while simultaneously performing a cultural analysis that identifies an essential feature of the American mind. Aesthetic Transcendentalism thus possesses abiding significance for our vital interactions with nature, daily experiences, and contemplations of great works of art. Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting will be of interest to scholars of American philosophy and American art history, especially specialists of Charles S. Peirce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Hudson River School painters. It will also appeal to philosophers working on systematic metaphysical theories of nature.

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Lexington Books

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1498524540

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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and opportunity. In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these homes. He explores the role of the city-state and considers why Bologna and Florence took different paths in operating the orphanages. Terpstra finds that Bologna's orphanages were better run, looked after the children more effectively, and were more successful in returning their wards to society as productive members of the city's economy. Florence's orphanages were larger and harsher, and made little attempt to reintegrate children into society. Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.

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364

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JHU Press

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1421429330

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9781421429335

Cultures of Charity

Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

By: Nicholas Terpstra

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Cultures of Charity

Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

By: Nicholas Terpstra

Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence. Signal features of the reforms, from forced labor to new instruments of saving and lending, were devised specifically to help young women get a start in life. Cultures of Charity is the first book to see women’s poverty as the key factor driving changes to poor relief. These changes generated intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.

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Harvard University Press

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0674071743

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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

An analysis of the social, political and religious role of confraternities in Renaissance Bologna, first published in 1995.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522617

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9780521522618

Rainbows in the Fountain

By: Nicholas Mancini

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Rainbows in the Fountain

By: Nicholas Mancini

Rainbows in the Fountain is the story of a spirited youth-growing up during and after WWII in Italy-caught between his mother and grandmother's conflict on how to discipline him while the two families lived under the same roof. When the two women died, within two years of one another, and his father married his first cousin, Nics allied with his grandfather, who continued to enchant him with storytelling while instilling in the youth compassion and respect. His grandfather's death three years later left the boy confused, which made him become aware of the importance of school, something he had neglected since his father's marriage.

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Nicholas Mancini

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1593303017

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Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

By: Nicholas Rescher

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Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

By: Nicholas Rescher

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. This shift of focus has implications for virtually every sector of information management, and the book’s instigations presented here will explore some of them. Throughout the rule of pragmatic considerations stand in the foreground.As the book’s deliberations set out in detail, the nature of our knowledge of reality is inherently conditioned by the fact of its beings the product of what is, at best and at most, a matter of rational guesswork. And so as regards our knowledge, we had best adopt the pragmatic optimism of expecting—and hoping—that our best is good enough.

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Lexington Books

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1498563546

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9781498563543

Durer to Veronese

Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Nicholas Penny

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Durer to Veronese

Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery

By: Jill Dunkerton,Susan Foister,Nicholas Penny

The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting - including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture, decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits - as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s.

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Yale University Press

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0300095333

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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

By: Nicholas Guardiano

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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

Cultures of Charity

Cultures of Charity

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Rainbows in the Fountain

Rainbows in the Fountain

Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

Durer to Veronese

Durer to Veronese

Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

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