Search results for "history of ideas"

Bello e Idea nell’estetica del Seicento

2007

The Beautiful and The Idea in 17th-Century Aesthetics In his renowned lecture on the Idea, which he delivered at the Academy of Saint Luke in 1664, Giovan Pietro Bellori asserts the superiority of ideal beauty against the slavish imitation of reality and the unbridled freedom of the imagination. However, an equally important, albeit lesser known, contributor to the formulation of this classicist aesthetic theory is Giovan Battista Agucchi, author of a Treatise on Painting that appeared in fragmentary form in 1646. In this work, Agucchi identifes beauty as the truest and highest aim of painting; he attributes to the artist the power to contemplate the Idea, and confers a profound cognitive v…

Arte e Idea. Francisco de Hollanda e l’estetica del Cinquecento

2004

Art and Ideas Francisco de Hollanda and Sixteenth-Century Aesthetics The historians of aesthetics who have studied the problem of ideas in art theory (from Panofsky to Baeumler and Tatarkiewicz) have overlooked Da pintura antiga, by Portuguese artist and theoretician Francisco de Hollanda (1517-1584), a text where the Platonic notion of idea enters a treatise on art for the first time. The present volume aims to fill such gap by shedding light on an author who has long been overshadowed by the great Michelangelo (whom Hollanda met during his stay in Rome in the years 1538-1540), as well as by advancing an analysis of the aesthetic concepts that emerge not only from Da pintura antiga, but fr…

Mapping the Teaching of History of Chemistry in Europe

2016

Recent developments in the field of history of chemistry have introduced new topics, challenges, and connections to a broad range of scientific, political, cultural, economic, and environmental issues. New audiences for the history of chemistry have emerged along with new topics, protagonists, spaces, and historical narratives. This paper summarizes the main results of a recent survey to map the current situation of the teaching of history of chemistry in Europe. We review how and where history of chemistry is taught in Europe, considering not only graduate students in science programs, but also other audiences such as science teachers, and the general public. This paper also provides updat…

Between the Darkness of Barbarism and the Light of Civilization: British Images of the Finn in the Late Eighteenth Century

2014

This article aims to show that it was the British travellers (Coxe, Tooke, Clarke,et al.) to Finland in the late eighteenth century who discovered Finland for theBritish reading public. As they distinguished the Finns as a separate ‘race’ fromthe Russians, the Swedes, and the Lapps, they contributed to the proto-racialistimage of them that would become popular in the nineteenth century. BecauseSweden had become an important maritime trading partner (in iron ore, tar, andtimber) to the British, its eastern part, Finland, also became an interesting countryto visit en route from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg (or from Saint Petersburgto Stockholm). The travellers were astonished to realize that…

La historia conceptual en la historiografía de la educación: Hacia una historia del pensamiento pedagógico

2014

espanol?Cual es la potencia de la Historia Conceptual para la historiografia educativa? El neologismo "pedagogia" fue acunado en tiempos de secularizacion y aceleracion caracteristicos de la Modernidad (1750-1850) para referirse a un saber mesianico-salvifico que habia de contribuir a la precipitacion del fin de la historia y la llegada de la edad del espiritu (Geist) que sustituia al Juicio Final. Asi, la Historia de la Pedagogia se perfilo como una Historia de las Ideas al abrigo del idealismo (Hegel) y del historicismo (Dilthey). Con el paso del tiempo, el auge de la Historia Social produjo una perdida de la importancia de lo inmaterial en la nueva disciplina que se llamaria Historia de …

The Survival of Ancient Monsters: Freud and Baubo

2015

The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late eighteenth century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a signific…

In the first person: Avicenna’s concept of self-awarenessreconstructed

2015

„Die Gottesluft der freien Forschung“ – Jacobis Verhältnis zur französischen Mathematik aus politischer Sicht

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)

Für die Ehre des menschlichen Geistes - Ein neuer Blick auf eine bekannte Kontroverse zwischen Fourier und Jacobi über die Rolle der Anwendungen der …

2013

Published version of an article from the journal: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)

Valiant, vital and virtuous : A time-snap review

2020

A time-snap review – moments captured pictorially – means the creation of multi-layered observation. The enquiring gaze then extends beyond the present moment: to its existential roots. However, it is not a question of presenting an historical list, a collection of topics of various types and periods. Of course, understanding the present also requires knowledge of the people and events of the past. In this way it also becomes possible to study the recurring nature of existence. Can war-related travel also count as cultural travel? Is it possible to talk about war tourism? Presumably, in many countries the answer to this will be positive. It relates to the history of ideas and also to nation…