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Delving 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.


Art and Philosophy --- Aesthetics, Modern --- Visual communication in art --- Art, Renaissance. --- Art, Modern --- 930.85 "15/17" --- 1 "15/17" --- 1 "15/17" Filosofie:--Moderne Tijd --- Filosofie:--Moderne Tijd --- 930.85 "15/17" Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- Art, Renaissance --- Renaissance art --- Art --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy and art --- Philosophy --- History. --- History --- Philosophie et art --- Esthétique --- 76:655.5 "15/17" --- 76.049 :1 --- 655.533 --- 655.533 Boekillustratie --- 655.533 Book illustrations. Pictorial matter in books --- Boekillustratie --- Book illustrations. Pictorial matter in books --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Painting --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1500-1799 --- philosophy --- visual literacy --- philosophy of art --- pictorial views --- visual aids [education tools] --- visual culture --- MAD-faculty 18 --- kunst en filosofie --- kunstgeschiedenis --- visuele cultuur --- Europa --- Philosophie et art. --- Art and Philosophy - Europe --- Aesthetics, Modern - 17th century --- Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century --- Visual communication in art - Europe - History --- Art, Modern - 18th century

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Narcissus [Mythological character] --- Caravaggio

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Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Study and teaching --- History

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This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the interaction between tradition and innovation in the early modern classroom, the site where traditional views of the world were transmitted to the generation that was to give birth to modern philosophy and science. Secondly, it draws together scholars who are centered on ideas and words with other scholars who focus on the role of images in the classroom and the intellectual world in this central period of history. The volume advances our understanding of how philosophy was understood and transmitted in this rich and crucial era. The principal audience for Teaching Philosophy are historians of science, philosophy, art, visual culture, and print culture. The chapters are written in a tone accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It also reaches non-specialist readers interested in subjects including the "scientific revolution," the organization of information, and Renaissance and Baroque visual art.

Philosophy --- History of philosophy --- Didactics of sciences --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- wetenschappen