Download or read book Exploring the Making of the Modern Mind Through Selected Texts written by Frederic Will and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of small texts chosen from a sequence of significant writers whose work fell between the Renaissance and the later seventeenth century, from Ficino to Dryden. The study traces a gradual growth of self-awareness, worldview scepticism, and aesthetic exuberance.