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OverviewThis book explores the life of Galileo Galilei through a philosophical and scientific lens, utilizing an innovative hermeneutic perspective that places his work in the wider context of early modern hermeticism, religious heresy, and libertinism. As the first comprehensive study of Galileo’s life and work from a phenomenological and existentialist viewpoint, Paolo Palmieri calls into question the positivist myth of Galileo, the founder of modern science, and interrogates the positivist historiography that has shaped the myth since the historic publication of the monumental edition of Galileo’s works at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights the entanglement of Galileo’s natural philosophy with his private unorthodox convictions about Christian theology, Biblical hermeneutic, sexuality, and the hidden traditions of Italian heretics and libertines. The text demonstrates the philosophical, pedagogical, and political implications of this new reading of one of the founding fathers of modernity for both the sciences and the humanities. Addressing hotly debated questions of ethnicity, racism, subjectivity, the self, and pedagogy, this study will be of particular interest to scholars who teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in history of science, philosophy of science, phenomenology and existential philosophy, cultural studies, Italian studies, humanism, and the European Renaissance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paolo PalmieriPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Edition: New edition Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781433131400ISBN 10: 1433131404 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 05 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Preface – Myth – Hermes – Luna – Sol – Jove – Heaven – Hospitality – Bibliography – Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationPaolo Palmieri received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the University of London. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, exploring the traditions which shaped modernity during the late middle ages through the twentieth century. His research includes work on the creativity processes at the crossroads of art, science, philosophy, and pedagogy. Dr. Palmieri’s special interests also include early modern science and philosophy, hermeticism, the Montessori method, pragmatism, existentialism, and phenomenology. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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