TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Susanna TI - The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment SN - 9780691172279 AV - BH39 .B47 2018 U1 - 190 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Art and philosophy KW - Europe KW - Art, Modern KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Visual communication in art KW - History KW - ART / History / Renaissance KW - bisacsh KW - Aristotle KW - Bosse KW - Drer KW - Girard Desargues KW - Justus Winkelmann KW - Leviathan KW - Logicae universae typus KW - Paris philosophy notebooks KW - Siegmund Jacob Apin KW - Typus KW - Willibald Pirckheimer KW - alba amicorum KW - art KW - dissertation KW - drawing KW - early modern period KW - engravings KW - escriptio KW - friendship albums KW - frontispiece KW - lecture notebooks KW - logic KW - manuscript KW - manuscripts KW - mental representation KW - metaphysics KW - mnemonic printed images KW - moral philosophy KW - natural philosophy KW - philosophical images KW - philosophical knowledge KW - philosophical thought KW - philosophical understanding KW - plural images KW - visual art KW - visual commentary KW - visual images KW - visual representation KW - visualization N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Apin's Cabinet of Printed Curiosities --; 2. Thinking through Plural Images of Logic --; 3. The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks --; 4. Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum --; 5. The Generation of Art as the Generation of Philosophy --; Appendix 1. Catalogue of Surviving Impressions of Philosophical Plural Images --; Appendix 2. Transcriptions of the Texts Inscribed onto Philosophical Plural Images --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Illustration Credits; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern periodDelving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history.Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Léonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Dürer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "plural image," a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy.Featuring previously unpublished prints and drawings from the early modern period and lavish gatefolds, The Art of Philosophy reveals the essential connections between visual commentary and philosophical thought UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885121?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400885121 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400885121.jpg ER -