Robert Burton and Ramist Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10424850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Renaker (San Francisco State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-220 |
| Publication date | 1971-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2859197 |
| PMID | 11615514 |
| OpenAlex | W2322301021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Readers have always found it easier to agree that Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a good book than to agree on precisely what makes it so good or what message it is, in its laborious and complicated manner, delivering. As they stress now this aspect and now that of its fathomless richness, they seem at times hardly to be talking about the same work. For example, we are told that Burton is utterly credulous: 'For the nature of evidence (as it is called by the moderns) he cares nothing. Everything is admissible that has been written in a book.' And yet, ‘in Burton the English Renaissance grows... skeptical.' The book is ‘a medical treatise ... orderly in arrangement.' Yet it is a ‘trackless jungle.’ It is a ‘formidable statement of ... skepticism.' On the contrary, 'no greater adept of Platonism’ than Burton ‘ever lived'; or rather, ‘Burton was, first of all, a neo-Platonist.'6 But then, ‘he is no metaphysician
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Jungle · Literature · Metaphysics · Nothing · Platonism · Skepticism · Statement (logic · The Renaissance · Classics · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2016 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |