The theological origins of modernity [electronic resource] /
Michael Allen Gillespie.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- xiii, 386 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-361) and index.
The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.