James Hankins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Hankins |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Hankins |
| SIGNATURE | HANKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Was Renaissance Virtue Politics a Failure
Let me begin by expressing my deep gratitude to Dr. David Ragazzoni for his energy and persistence in organizing this forum, and especially to my distinguished interlocutors, eminent experts all, for their serious and stimulating engagement with a very long book containing a great deal of unfamiliar material. No author could hope for greater generosity. Each of the responses in this forum has helped me see how readers from different points on the…
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What most concerned Renaissance political theorists, Hankins contends, was not reforming laws but shaping citizens. To secure the social good, they fostered virtue through a new program of education: the humanities
Ficino’s Critique of Lucretius
After an early flirtation with Lucretius, Marsilio Ficino, the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance, became a confirmed enemy of the Epicurean philosopher. This chapter discusses the extensive critique of Lucretius found in Ficino's Platonic Theology (1482). The vehemence and extent of Ficino's critique suggests that Ficino believed Epicureanism to be a 'live option' in Medicean Florence and a threat to his project of renewing Christia…
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento…
Hankins, James and Fabrizio Meroi (eds.). The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 26–27 April 2007): for Michael J. B. Allen. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2014, pp. 5-198), on Érudit
Machiavelli, Civic Humanism, and the Humanist Politics of Virtue
Modern studies of Italian humanist political thought emphasize the theme of republican liberty, but this conception has been understood in anachronistic ways and exaggerated in importance. Much more central is the problem of how to encourage virtuous and prudent behavior in the ruling class. The humanist answer — a classical education in virtue and wisdom, along with the creation of new social technologies of persuasion — was comprehensively reje…
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of a conference held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento…
Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic
The idea that a republic is the only legitimate form of government and that non-elective monarchy and hereditary political privileges are by definition illegitimate is an artifact of late eighteenth century republicanism, though it has roots in the “godly republics” of the seventeenth century. It presupposes understanding a republic ( respublica) to be a non-monarchical form of government. The latter definition is a discursive practice that goes …
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions…
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism
Argues that the theology of the Italian Renaissance looks forward in certain key respects to the theologies of the Enlightenment and to modern ecumenism; discusses Nicolaus Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Thomas More and others.
History of the Florentine People, Vol. 1: Books I-IV
Epistolario, 2: La raccolta canonica della "Epistole," . Francesco Barbaro , Claudio Griggio De infelicitate principum . Poggio Bracciolini , Davide Canfora Laudatio Florentine urbis . Leonardo Bruni …
Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections
Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pioneering work of Hans Baron (1966) and J. G. A. Pocock (1975), creating a fresh intellectual landscape in which Renaissance civic humanism can be discussed. Drawing on a wide range of political and histor…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
The Psychological Foundations of Identity Politics
This chapter reviews social psychological theories relating to political identity and group behavior. We define individual and social identity, examine the main social psychological explanations of social identity, and discuss work on intergroup relations, boundaries, and conflict. We suggest several particular substantive political debates that would benefit from knowledge of this literature
Pierleone da Spoleto on Plato's Psychogony (Glosses on the Timaeus in Barb. Lat. 21)
Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and Its Sources
Michael J. B. Allen. Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and Its Sources. Aldershot, Hampshire and Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. xiv + 336 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 086-0784-72-X. - Volume 51 Issue 1
Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum
Leonardo Bruni. Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum. Ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassarri. (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Studi e testi, 35.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. xxii + 305 pp. IL 60,000. ISBN: n.a. - Volume 51 Issue 3
Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic . Michael J. B. Allen
The "Baron Thesis" after Forty Years and Some Recent Studies of Leonardo Bruni
was entirely appropriate the death of Hans Baron in November of 1988 should have become the occasion for a number of tributes to his work and influence as a Renaissance historian; and since Princeton University Press, only a few months earlier, had issued a collection of his papers and articles, a retrospective look at his contributions to Renaissance studies was made all the more obligatory.' Among the more perceptive accounts of Baron's work wa…
Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile. John Monfasani
Renaissance Philosophy
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Plato in the Italian Renaissance.
This text provides a study of the dramatic revival of interest in the Platonic dialogues in Italy in the 15th century. Through a contextual study of the translations and commentaries on Plato, this book seeks to show how the interpretation of Plato was moulded by the expectations of 15th-century readers, by the need to protect Plato against his critics, and by the broader hermeneutical assumptions and practices of the period. The second part of t…
Plato in the Italian Renaissance
Theory and Practice in Renaissance Textual Criticism: Beatus Rhenanus Between Conjecture and History
John F. D'Amico. Theory and Practice in Renaissance Textual Criticism: Beatus Rhenanus Between Conjecture and History. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1988. xiv + 310 pp. - Volume 44 Issue 1
The Psychological Foundations of Identity Politics
This chapter reviews social psychological theories relating to political identity and group behavior. We define individual and social identity, examine the main social psychological explanations of social identity, and discuss work on intergroup relations, boundaries, and conflict. We suggest several particular substantive political debates that would benefit from knowledge of this literature
Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic
The idea that a republic is the only legitimate form of government and that non-elective monarchy and hereditary political privileges are by definition illegitimate is an artifact of late eighteenth century republicanism, though it has roots in the “godly republics” of the seventeenth century. It presupposes understanding a republic ( respublica) to be a non-monarchical form of government. The latter definition is a discursive practice that goes …
The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence
Nee enim tarn numeranda veterumtestimonia sunt quam ponderanda.Poliziano, Misc. I. 39There has never been much doubt among Renaissance scholars about the leading role played by Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonic philosophy in the cultural life of the High Renaissance. From the time of his first biographer, Giovanni Corsi, Ficino's work of recovering and disseminating Platonism was held to be one of the great achievements of Medici patronage. The pub…
Machiavelli, Civic Humanism, and the Humanist Politics of Virtue
Modern studies of Italian humanist political thought emphasize the theme of republican liberty, but this conception has been understood in anachronistic ways and exaggerated in importance. Much more central is the problem of how to encourage virtuous and prudent behavior in the ruling class. The humanist answer — a classical education in virtue and wisdom, along with the creation of new social technologies of persuasion — was comprehensively reje…
The "Baron Thesis" after Forty Years and Some Recent Studies of Leonardo Bruni
was entirely appropriate the death of Hans Baron in November of 1988 should have become the occasion for a number of tributes to his work and influence as a Renaissance historian; and since Princeton University Press, only a few months earlier, had issued a collection of his papers and articles, a retrospective look at his contributions to Renaissance studies was made all the more obligatory.' Among the more perceptive accounts of Baron's work wa…
La bibliothèque Farnèse: Étude des manuscrits latins et en langue vernaculaire. (Le palais Farnèse, III, 2)
Francois Fossier. La bibliothèque Farnese: étude des manuscrits latins et en langue vernaculaire. (Le palais Farnese, III, 2). Rome: École francaise de Rome, 1982. vii+ 509 pp. 8 plates, L. 80,000; FF. 400. - Volume 37 Issue 1
"La fede nella "paideia: Aspetti della fortuna europea di Isocrate nei secoli XV e XVI
Lucia Gualdo Rosa. La fede nella “paideia“: Aspetti della fortuna europea di Isocrate net secoli XV e XVI. (Studi storici, 140-142.) Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1984. 8 pls. + xiv + 306 pp. L.30,000. - Volume 38 Issue 3
Renaissance Ideas and the Idea of the Renaissance
Theory and Practice in Renaissance Textual Criticism: Beatus Rhenanus Between Conjecture and History
John F. D'Amico. Theory and Practice in Renaissance Textual Criticism: Beatus Rhenanus Between Conjecture and History. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1988. xiv + 310 pp. - Volume 44 Issue 1
The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence
Nee enim tarn numeranda veterumtestimonia sunt quam ponderanda.Poliziano, Misc. I. 39There has never been much doubt among Renaissance scholars about the leading role played by Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonic philosophy in the cultural life of the High Renaissance. From the time of his first biographer, Giovanni Corsi, Ficino's work of recovering and disseminating Platonism was held to be one of the great achievements of Medici patronage. The pub…
Forging Links with the Past
Anthony Grafton, Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1990). Mark Jones, with Paul Craddock and Nicolas Barker, eds., Fake? The Art of Deception (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990). Paul Veyne, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination, tr. Paula Wissing (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,…
Plato in the Italian Renaissance.
This text provides a study of the dramatic revival of interest in the Platonic dialogues in Italy in the 15th century. Through a contextual study of the translations and commentaries on Plato, this book seeks to show how the interpretation of Plato was moulded by the expectations of 15th-century readers, by the need to protect Plato against his critics, and by the broader hermeneutical assumptions and practices of the period. The second part of t…
Plato in the Italian Renaissance
Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile. John Monfasani
Renaissance Philosophy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The "Baron Thesis" after Forty Years and Some Recent Studies of Leonardo Bruni
was entirely appropriate the death of Hans Baron in November of 1988 should have become the occasion for a number of tributes to his work and influence as a Renaissance historian; and since Princeton University Press, only a few months earlier, had issued a collection of his papers and articles, a retrospective look at his contributions to Renaissance studies was made all the more obligatory.' Among the more perceptive accounts of Baron's work wa…
Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic . Michael J. B. Allen
Pierleone da Spoleto on Plato's Psychogony (Glosses on the Timaeus in Barb. Lat. 21)
Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and Its Sources
Michael J. B. Allen. Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and Its Sources. Aldershot, Hampshire and Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995. xiv + 336 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 086-0784-72-X. - Volume 51 Issue 1
Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum
Leonardo Bruni. Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum. Ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassarri. (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Studi e testi, 35.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. xxii + 305 pp. IL 60,000. ISBN: n.a. - Volume 51 Issue 3
Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections
Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pioneering work of Hans Baron (1966) and J. G. A. Pocock (1975), creating a fresh intellectual landscape in which Renaissance civic humanism can be discussed. Drawing on a wide range of political and histor…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
The Psychological Foundations of Identity Politics
This chapter reviews social psychological theories relating to political identity and group behavior. We define individual and social identity, examine the main social psychological explanations of social identity, and discuss work on intergroup relations, boundaries, and conflict. We suggest several particular substantive political debates that would benefit from knowledge of this literature
History of the Florentine People, Vol. 1: Books I-IV
Epistolario, 2: La raccolta canonica della "Epistole," . Francesco Barbaro , Claudio Griggio De infelicitate principum . Poggio Bracciolini , Davide Canfora Laudatio Florentine urbis . Leonardo Bruni …
Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism
Argues that the theology of the Italian Renaissance looks forward in certain key respects to the theologies of the Enlightenment and to modern ecumenism; discusses Nicolaus Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Thomas More and others.
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions…
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Exclusivist Republicanism and the Non-Monarchical Republic
The idea that a republic is the only legitimate form of government and that non-elective monarchy and hereditary political privileges are by definition illegitimate is an artifact of late eighteenth century republicanism, though it has roots in the “godly republics” of the seventeenth century. It presupposes understanding a republic ( respublica) to be a non-monarchical form of government. The latter definition is a discursive practice that goes …
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of a conference held at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento…
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