Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-361) and index
The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes’ path to truth -- Hobbes’ fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.
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