Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World - Paperback

by David R. Castillo (Editor), Massimo Lollini (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

David R. Castillo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.

Massimo Lollini is Hatzantonis Distinguished Fellow in Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at the University of Oregon.