Examines the teaching and practice of the twin arts of argumentation -- rhetoric and dialectic -- in the time of Galileo. Galileo was an ardent controversialist

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theo

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic

This book argues the importance of Galileo's reading and engagement with a range of writers to the shaping of early modern philosophy.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclus