Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
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"Disknowledge" knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081222485X
ISBN13:9780812224856
Release Date:May 2021
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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