Original scientific paper
Renaissance as a Problem
Ljerka Schiffler
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The authoress examines several theses advanced in European historiographical research in Renaissance in the twentieth century, considering particularly two of Johan Huizinga's treatises on Renaissance written in 1920 and 1929 respectively (»Das Problem der Renaissance« and »Renaissance und Realismus«), analyzing them in relation with certain methodological and contextual problems of the positions of Croatian historiography.
The article aims to point at the characteristics of thinking in the basis of the history of the interpretations of Renaissance as a spiritual-historical period as a whole and in its separate manifestations, especially in philosophical thought.
Through the survey of various meanings of the »myth« of Renaissance, and through the survey of the epistemological, esthetical and noetical questions and dilemmas facing the philosophy historian, as well as the culture historian and the lexicographer, the authoress expounds some of the issues important to the researches in European and Croatian cultural and spiritual history from Renaissance to the present day, among others, the issue of the concept of spiritual-historical periods, the medieval and Renaissance ones in particular, the significance of heritage and the problem of its interpretation, the relation between history and reality, art and actuality, the concepts of realism, historical consciousness and human knowledge, as well as the issue of historians' task.
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Hrčak ID:
81897
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Publication date:
6.12.1993.
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