The Unknowing Self: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Early Modern Subjects

This dissertation explores the role of ignorance in the process of early modern self-fashioning. Renaissance historiography has, by and large, been based on a Cartesian-cum-Hegelian understanding of the subject as a subject of knowledge. An individual's recognition of her self-motivated agency,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul, Ryan Singh
Other Authors: Brown, Meg Lota
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194293