르네상스 휴머니즘, 과거와 현재의 교차로

• 영문명: Renaissance Humanism, a Crossroad between the Past and the Present
• 발행기관: 한국사학사학회
• 저자명: 임병철(Byung-Chul Lim)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국사학사학보』제19권, 169~198쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 역사학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.06.30

영문 초록

Renaissance humanism is one of the most controversial terms in Renaissance studies and the general history of ideas as well. The present study is a historiographical sketch of how such a contentious concept has been interpreted through the 20th century up to now. Further more, based upon that historiographical survey, it suggests a new approach toward the better understanding of Renaissance humanism and its historical significance. By the middle of the 20th century, the three broad tendencies were already in advance and prevailed the scholarship of Renaissance intellectual history: Eugenio Garin's view that Renaissance humanism was a philosophy of man, Hans Baron's understanding of it as a social reforming movement which he labelled civic humanism, and the interpretation of it as a literary and educational movement espoused by Paul Oskar Kristeller. In a word, Garin, Baron, and Kristeller were such gigantic figures who deepened and elaborated Renaissance studies after the Second World War. But, in spite of insightful, coherent, and historicist interpretation of Renaissance humanism based upon wide and thorough archival researches, their views are in need of redirection or correction. Simply put, as exemplified in new studies about Renaissance humanism in the second half of the twentieth century by Ronald G. Witt, Robert Black, and Riccardo Fubini, three giants' interpretations were either too static or limited to a particular intellectual tendency of the times, and even more they all strived to present a meta thesis about Renaissance humanism. The present study suggests the several works of Anthony Grafton, today's one of the most prolific researchers in Renaissance studies, as new possibilities of overcoming three giants's limits. In particular, Grafton's broad interest in material cultures in general would open the new horizon of understanding Renaissance humanism. Consequently, this study argues that the best way of interpreting Renaissance humanism is to understand it as a set of textual practice mediating between a venerated antiquity and the contemporary age, and as a critical culture emerged from classical studies.

목차

1. 르네상스 사학사의 부활과 휴머니즘

2. 20세기 거인의 등장과 휴머니즘 해석의 갈래

3. 거인의 발자취를 쫓아, 거인의 어깨 너머에서

4. 넓어지는 연구의 지평과 르네상스 휴머니즘에 대한 새로운 이해

키워드

르네상스 르네상스 휴머니즘 가린 바론 크리스텔러 그래프튼 부르크하르트 Renaissance Renaissance Humanism Eugenio Garin Hans Baron Paul Oskar Kristeller Anthony Grafton Jacob Burckhardt