Commonplace learning : Ramism and its German ramifications, 1543-1630 / Howard Hotson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hotson, Howard.

Series:

Oxford-Warburg studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572.

Ramus, Petrus.

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Philosophy, Modern.

Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572--Influence.

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

xvi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. While its origins in France, its impact in colonial America, and its influence in England, Scotland, and Ireland have been studied in detail, its uniquely warm reception in central Europe-where the great majority of posthumous reprintings of Ramus's work appeared-has never been synoptically studied. This book, the first contextualised study of this rich tradition, therefore has wide-ranging implications for the intellectual, cultural, and social histories not only of the Holy Roman Empire but also of the entire Protestant world in the crucial decades immediately preceding the advent of the 'new philosophy' in the mid-seventeenth century.

Contents:

First-Generation Ramism

1 Introduction: The Earliest German Ramism 3

1.i Ramism in Germany: a neglected tradition 3

1.ii Ramism and Calvinism: an overworked explanation 16

1.iii The spread of Ramism in north-western Germany: a fresh start 25

2 Foundations: Ramism in German Context, 1543-1600 38

2.i The rudiments of Ramism 38

2.ii Ramism and humanism, c.1580-1600 51

2.iii Ramism in Hanseatic cities and imperial counties 68

Second-Generation Semi-Ramism

3 Institutionalization: Semi-Ramism in Reformed Academies, 1580-1600 101

3.i Evolution: the advent of Philippo-Ramism 101

3.ii Confessionalization: Ramism and Calvinism revisited 108

3.iii Expansion: Ramism and the encyclopaedia 114

4 Adaptation: Post-Ramist Methods in Reformed Universities, 1590-1613 127

4.i Beyond Philippo-Ramism: Casmann, Timpler, Keckermann, and Alsted 127

4.ii 'Methodical Peripateticism': Heidelberg and Keckermann's systema, 1590-1601 136

4.iii Precursor to the Encyclopaedia: Danzig and Keckermann's Systema systematum, 1602-1613 153

Third-Generation Post-Ramist Eclecticism

5 Compilation: Alsted's Cursus philosophici encyclopaedia, 1609-1620 169

5.i Form: The Encyclopaedia as systema systematum 169

5.ii Composition: the Encyclopaedia as bibliotheca universalis locorum communium 186

5.iii Matter: the Encyclopaedia as bibliotheca philosophica 200

6 Culmination: Alsted's Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta, 1620-1630 225

6.i Synthesis: the Encyclopaedia as systema harmonicum 225

6.ii Expansion: from Cursus philosophici encyclopaedia (1620) to Encyclopaedia omnium disciplinarum (1630) 246

6.iii Dissolution: the Encyclopaedia as Farragines disciplinarum 254

7 Interim Conclusions 274

7.i Destruction and further ramification, 1622-1670 274

7.ii Common principles: means and ends of the German post-Ramist tradition 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-306) and index.

ISBN:

0198174306

9780198174301

OCLC:

71223040