Paul Strathern
Auteur de The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
A propos de l'auteur
Paul Strathern has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Philosophy and lectures at Kingston University. Strathern is the author of several novels, including A Season in Abyssinia, which won a Somerset Maugham prize, and Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements. He has also published two series of afficher plus books, one on philosophy: Philosophers in 90 Minutes, and another on science, but is best known for his 39 short biographies of philosophers and scientists (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Paul Strathern
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World… (2009) 345 exemplaires
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City (2011) 169 exemplaires
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World (2023) 72 exemplaires
Stephen Hawking em 90 Minutos 2 exemplaires
Literatos en 90 minutos. Pack 2, Tolstói, Poe, Virginia Woolf, Dostoievski, D. H. Lawrence y Kafka (2017) 2 exemplaires
Literatos en 90 minutos. Pack 1, Borges, Nabokov, Beckett, García Márquez, James Joyce y Heminway (2017) 2 exemplaires
Filósofos en 90 minutos. Pack 3, Maquiavelo, Berkeley, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume y Descartes (2017) 2 exemplaires
Filósofos en 90 minutos. Pack 2, Hegel, Nietzsche, Locke, Schopenhauer, Marx y Kant (2017) 2 exemplaires
Filósofos en 90 minutos. Pack 1, Derrida, Sartre, Foucault, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard y Russell (2017) 2 exemplaires
Essential Socrates (Virgin Philosophers) 2 exemplaires
Sartre in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Socrates in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Hume in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Kafka in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Heidegger in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Hegel in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Kant in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Plato in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Spinoza in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Nietzsche in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Rousseau in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
Mendelejevin uni : puuttuvien alkuaineiden etsintä 1 exemplaire
Man's Book-The Case of the Queenly Contestant / One Man’s War / The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
A Brief History Of Economic Genius 1 exemplaire
Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes 1 exemplaire
90 Minute Philosophers -- Kant, Marx, and Aquinas 1 exemplaire
Descartes: Philosophy in an Hour 1 exemplaire
Newton 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Strathern, Paul
- Date de naissance
- 1940
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Royaume-Uni
- Lieu de naissance
- Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lieux de résidence
- Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Études
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Professions
- Lecturer (Mathématique, Philosophie)
- Relations
- Horx, Matthias (Beau-fils)
- Organisations
- Université de Kingston (Professeur, Philosophie, Mathématique)
- Prix et distinctions
- Somerset Maugham Award (1972)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 140
- Membres
- 6,538
- Popularité
- #3,758
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 186
- ISBN
- 793
- Langues
- 20
- Favoris
- 3
I thought the distinction of the "northern" renaissance was a litlle artificial, but it was probably worth the author highlighting that there was much more to the renaissance than the art and architecture of Italy.
The book is broken up into short chapters covering individuals who made their mark in the opening of minds in the 1400 and 1500s northern Europe. From Luther to Copernicus to Erasmus and Shakespeare, there is much there to keep the reader interested.
I had a couple of quibbles - I couldn't see how Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I contributed much to the renaissance. Major figures in the times in France and England, but ranaissance figures? I'm not convinced. And while Shakespeare is covered as a major literary figure, there wasn't much effort to highlight how he was different from his predescessors, or how he changed the stage for the future.
But minor points. This is good popularised history.… (plus d'informations)