Paul Oskar Kristeller

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Kristeller, Paul Oskar

Born May 22, 1905, in Berlin. American philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Kristeller has been in the USA since 1939, the year in which he became a teacher. He became a professor at Columbia University (in New York) in 1956. Kristeller’s research is devoted primarily to the philosophy of the Renaissance. While regarding the period as a new era, he concentrates his attention on the continuation and further development of earlier traditions. Acknowledging the influence of Italian humanism upon all spheres of culture, Kristeller nonetheless asserts (despite traditional views) that the philosophy of the Renaissance developed independently of humanism and partly in conflict with it.

WORKS

The Philosophy of M. Ficino. New York, 1943.
The Classics and Renaissance Thought. Cambridge (Mass.), 1955.
Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters. Rome, 1956.
Renaissance Thought, vols. 1–2. New York, 1961–65.

References in periodicals archive ?

(1) Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic, and Humanist Strains (New York: Harper and Row, 1961), 8.

A Commonsense Approach to Literary Criticism

It was found by Paul Oskar Kristeller in a miscellany of collected works, the Codex Palatinus 555 of the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma.

Baiae: Zwei Bucher Elfsilber

Ernst Cassirer, Francesco Petrarca, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall et al.

Rethinking humanism: animals and the analogic imagination in the Italian Renaissance

Ya en el siglo XX, es obligado destacar a tres grandes autores, ya clasicos: Hans Baron (1900-1988), y su concepto de <<humanismo civico [12], Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) y Eugenio Garin (1909-2004); autores estos dos ultimos de largas vidas paralelas y dispares interpretaciones: Garin, mas proximo a una interpretacion amplia, de caracter historico-cultural [13]; Kristeller, a una interpretacion que podriamos llamar restringida, mas continuista con la Edad Media [14].

<>. Una interpretacion desde la historia de la antropologia filosofica

Ignatius expounds but inverts a Renaissance philosophy articulated by Paul Oskar Kristeller, who was at the height of his influence as a scholar at Columbia University when Toole studied there.

The dialectic of American humanism: John Kennedy Toole's a Confederacy of Dunces, Marsilio Ficino, and Paul Oskar Kristeller

Among Paul Oskar Kristeller's many achievements in his far-reaching legacy was his Latin Manuscript Books before 1600, which he saw to its fourth revised and enlarged edition with the assistance of Dr.

Paul Oskar Kristeller. Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600: A List of the Printed Catalogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections. Erganzungsband 2006

A cumulative index to volumes I-VI of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter italicum; accedunt alia itinera: A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance...

(1.) See Raymond de Roover, "Cardinal Cajetan on 'Cambium' or Exchange Dealings," in Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed.

The state of the question in religion and economics

Last year, he was presented with the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest international award for a Renaissance scholar.

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The late Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) revolutionized Renaissance Studies and significantly influenced three generations of students, scholars, and non-specialist general readers through his teaching, lecturing, research, scholarship, and writings.

Kristeller Reconsidered

His knowledge of the literature is remarkable, and he shows himself to be a worthy heir to his mentor, the late Paul Oskar Kristeller. The survey features Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Bessarion, Pletho, Nifo, Pomponazzi, and a number of others confirming the vitality of intellectual activity in an era so long-neglected by standard histories of philosophy.