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Theological Origins of Modernity

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contents<br />

Preface ix<br />

Introduction 1<br />

1 Th e Nominalist Revolution and the Origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>Modernity</strong> 19<br />

2 Petrarch and the Invention <strong>of</strong> Individuality 44<br />

3 Humanism and the Apotheosis <strong>of</strong> Man 69<br />

4 Luther and the Storm <strong>of</strong> Faith 101<br />

5 Th e Contradictions <strong>of</strong> Premodernity 129<br />

6 Descartes’ Path to Truth 170<br />

7 Hobbes’ Fearful Wisdom 207<br />

8 Th e Contradictions <strong>of</strong> Enlightenment and the Crisis<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Modernity</strong> 255<br />

Epilogue 289<br />

Notes 295<br />

Index 363

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