Naslov
The Science of Prating in the Renaissance

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University

Mjesto i datum
Stanford (CA), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 20.01.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Counsel ; Renaissance literature ; truth-telling

Sažetak
The task of telling the truth, of saying what one really thinks, acquires in the Renaissance a renewed urgency. We find it closely linked not just to the question of ethos, of character or moral subject, but to the question of the commonwealth and its central political relations. In the largely monarchical context of early modern Europe, the problem of frank speech in relation to moral character on the one hand and to politics on the other finds its dominant articulation in the idea of counsel. Trained in textual wisdom and equipped with experience, the humanist counselor engages in a dialogue with the prince in order to help him shape the best kind of sovereign subjectivity but also to participate himself in the shaping of political outcomes. Compared to his baronial predecessor of the late medieval period, in England at least, the humanist counselor has a duty rather than a right to speak. He is invited into a parrhesiastic, truth-telling game in which character, power, and language intersect.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Filologija, Književnost

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