De Anima Intelligente - (History of Early Modern Educational Thought) by Anna Tropia (Hardcover)

About the Book

Discover how Renaissance Jesuits in 16th-century Paris reshaped cognitive theory--this book sheds new light on their classroom teachings and their impact on modern thought.

Book Synopsis

Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Renaissance philosophy has been described by Dame Frances A. Yates as a "no man's land" between the medieval and the modern. While standard narratives tend to leap from the end of scholasticism to the dawn of modern philosophy, this book pauses to ask: what happened in between? Focusing on Jesuit classrooms in 16th-century Paris, it uncovers the theories of cognition taught to generations of students. In doing so, it brings to light a vital--yet often forgotten--chapter in the history of ideas, revealing how Renaissance scholasticism helped shape the intellectual foundations of the modern age.

About the Author

Anna Tropia (Ph.D. Macerata, 2011), is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. She has widely published on medieval and early modern theories of cognition, including La Teoria della conoscenza di Francisco Macedo. Un filosofo tra Tommaso e Scoto (Carocci, 2020). She co-edited Rethinking Intentionality, Person and the Essence: Aquinas, Scotus, Stein (Brill, 2024).