Reason and Its Others Italy, Spain, and the New World
Ed. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the Early Modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Reason and Its Others in Early Modernity (A View from the South)
David Castillo and Massimo Lollini
Part I. Of Walls and Windows: Containment Machines and the Drive Towards the Unknown
Chapter 1
The Telescope in the Baroque Imagination
Andrea Battistini
Chapter 2
Descartes in Naples: The Reception of Passions de l’âme
Silvia Contarini
Chapter 3
Fernando de Herrera Invented the Internet: Technologies of Self-Containment in the Early Modern Sonnet
Leah Middlebrook
Chapter 4
A Ritual Practice for Modernity: Baltasar Gracián’s Organized Body of Taste
Bradley Nelson
Chapter 5
An Unreasonable Journey? The Place of Europe and Italy in Francesco Negri’s Viaggio settentrionale
Nathalie Hester
Chapter 6
Baroque Sapphic Poetry: A Feminist Road Not Taken
Dianne Dugaw and Amanda Powell
Part II. Of Houses and Cities: Early Modern Spaces and the Aporias of Baroque Reason
Chapter 7
The Foreigner and the Citizen: A Dialogue on Good Government in Spanish Naples
John A. Marino
Chapter 8
The Baroque Public Sphere
William Childers
Chapter 9
Reason’s Baroque House (Cervantes, Master Architect)
William Egginton
Chapter 10
Spanish Mannerist Detours in the Mapping of Reason: Around Cervantes’ Novelas Ejemplares
Julio Baena
Chapter 11
The Genealogy of the Sublime in the Aesthetics of the Spanish Baroque
Anthony J. Cascardi
Part III. The West Wing: America and the Frontiers of Reason
Chapter 12
Sacrificial Politics in the Spanish Colonies
Fernando R. de la Flor
Chapter 13
Bartolomé de las Casas on Imperial Ethics and the Use of Force
George Mariscal
Chapter 14
Imperialism and Anthropophagy in Early Modern Spanish Tragedy: The Unthought Known
Margaret Greer
Chapter 15
Reason and Utopia at the Imperial Borders: Modernity/Coloniality in the Jesuits’ Reducciones in Paraguay
Fernando Ordoñez
Chapter 16
Universal History: Vico’s New Science between Antiquarians and Ethnographers
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Afterword
Reasoning the Other
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini