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There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readersas interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work. Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figuresPetrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaignewas to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who relocated ethical inquiry from a theoretical realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience. Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the problems o

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226777429, 978-0226777429
      ISBN10: 0226777421
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      Book Synopsis
      There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readersas interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work. Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figuresPetrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaignewas to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who relocated ethical inquiry from a theoretical realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience. Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the problems o

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