Title The reformation of common learning : post-Ramist method and the reception of the new philosophy, 1618-c.1670 / Howard Hotson

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (464 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) Series Oxford-Warburg studies Oxford-Warburg studies. Summary "Howard Hotson's previous contribution to this series, Commonplace Learning, explored how a fragmented political and confessional landscape turned the northwestern corner of the Holy Roman Empire into the pedagogical laboratory of post-Reformation Protestant Europe. This sequel traces the further evolution of that tradition after that region's leading educational institutions were destroyed by the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and their students and teachers scattered in all directions. Transplanted to the Dutch Republic, the post-Ramist tradition provided ideas, values, and methods which helped to formulate the mechanical philosophy of Descartes and institutionalize it within a network of thriving universities. Within the international diaspora of Protestant intellectuals documented in the archive of Samuel Hartlib, post-Ramist encyclopaedism provided much of the framework for the pansophic programme of Comenius, which assisted the initial spread of Baconianism and related aspirations both in England and abroad. In post-war central Europe, another branch of the tradition helped inspire Leibniz's life-long vision of a revised combinatorial encyclopaedia as the centrepiece of a wide-ranging reform programme. But as the underlying political, confessional, educational, and intellectual context shifted after 1648, the ancient conception of the encyclopaedia as a cycle of disciplines to be mastered by every scholar exploded into a potentially infinite number of discrete topics organized alphabetically within a mere work of reference. This book weaves together many new lines of inquiry against a huge geographical and thematic canvas to contribute fresh perspectives on the fraught middle years of the seventeenth century in particular and the shape of modern knowledge more generally"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 20, 2021) Subject Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572 -- Influence SUBJECT Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572 fast Subject Education -- Europe -- History -- 17th century Education -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century War and education -- History -- 17th century Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Education Education -- Philosophy Intellectual life War and education SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727 Subject Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191898440 (ebook) 0191898449 (ebook) 9780192552969 0192552961

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