عنوان

Leonardo da Vinci Our Contemporary?

شماره

LA129600

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Leonardo da Vinci Our Contemporary?

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Nina Witoszek

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This essay polemicizes with a number of historians who claim that the European Renaissance has either "failed" or "continues to recede from us at an accelerating rate" (Burke 1998: 41; Barzun 2000; Bouswma 2002). I explore and revalue the ideas and representations of Renaissance humanism and the way they become manifest in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. I argue three main points: Firstly, that there is a fascinating, and much underestimated, ecological strain in Leonardo's opus, a view of relationship between humans and nature, which has a bearing on a paradigm shift required by the current environmental and social crisis. Secondly, in the project of re-imagining a sustainable future, there is much to learn from the way in which a small and subversive community of Renaissance umanisti managed-against all odds-to forge a ground-breaking ethical vision which became the foundation of Western modernity. Finally, both Leonardo's legacy and a reinvention of humanity and nature in the ideas of the Renaissance writers and thinkers, draw attention to a unique code of "eco-humanism"-a value platform emphasizing human dignity, nature's autonomy and authority, the importance of free inquiry and dialogue, as well as the codex of limitations to human pursuits. This essay polemicizes with a number of historians who claim that the European Renaissance has either "failed" or "continues to recede from us at an accelerating rate" (Burke 1998: 41; Barzun 2000; Bouswma 2002). I explore and revalue the ideas and representations of Renaissance humanism and the way they become manifest in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. I argue three main points: Firstly, that there is a fascinating, and much underestimated, ecological strain in Leonardo's opus, a view of relationship between humans and nature, which has a bearing on a paradigm shift required by the current environmental and social crisis. Secondly, in the project of re-imagining a sustainable future, there is much to learn from the way in which a small and subversive community of Renaissance umanisti managed-against all odds-to forge a ground-breaking ethical vision which became the foundation of Western modernity. Finally, both Leonardo's legacy and a reinvention of humanity and nature in the ideas of the Renaissance writers and thinkers, draw attention to a unique code of "eco-humanism"-a value platform emphasizing human dignity, nature's autonomy and authority, the importance of free inquiry and dialogue, as well as the codex of limitations to human pursuits.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

122-143

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

18/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

cosmopolis

اصطلاح موضوعی

eco-humanism

اصطلاح موضوعی

ecology

اصطلاح موضوعی

environmental crisis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Leonardo da Vinci

اصطلاح موضوعی

Renaissance humanism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Nina Witoszek

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685357-01802002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y