1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309063903316

Autore

Luzzatto Simone

Titolo

Socrates, or on Human Knowledge : Bilingual Edition / / Simone Luzzatto; Michela Torbidoni, Giuseppe Veltri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2019

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-055760-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (571)

Collana

Studies and Texts in Scepticism ; ; 8

Disciplina

149.73

Soggetti

Judaism

Jewish studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Synopsis of Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- Serenissimo prencipe et eccellentissimo collegio -- Al benigno lettore -- Argomento -- Accusa contra socrate everssore dell'humane dottrine -- Discolpa di socrate -- Si propone ciò che si deve deliberare circa socrate -- The Deceit of the Senses: Sight and the Mirror -- What Does Philosopher à l'antique Mean to Simone Luzzatto? -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Sources -- Index of Major Topics

Sommario/riassunto

Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention, prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the cognitive process. This obliged him to



come to the audacious conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement altogether.This work unfortunately had little success in Luzzatto's lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not only its legacy in the history of philosophical though, but also of understanding the circumstances surrounding the writing of his Socrates.The present edition will be a preliminary study aiming to shed some light on the philosophical and historical value of this work's translation, indeed it will provide a broader readership with the opportunity to access this immensely complicated work and also to grasp some aspects of the composite intellectual framework and admirable modernity of Venetian Jewish culture in the ghetto.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778259103321

Titolo

Information tomorrow [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on technology and the future of public and academic libraries / / edited by Rachel Singer Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, N.J., : Information Today, c2007

ISBN

1-283-23881-0

9786613238818

1-57387-899-5

1-57387-936-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Classificazione

06.60

Altri autori (Persone)

GordonRachel Singer

Disciplina

020.285/4678

Soggetti

Public libraries - Information technology

Academic libraries - Information technology

Libraries and the Internet

Libraries and electronic publishing

Library users - Effect of technological innovations on

Public libraries - Forecasting

Academic libraries - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The mobile age / Megan K. Fox -- The future of FLOSS in libraries / Daniel Chudnov -- Mouse bites cat : taking back the 21st-century ILS / John Blyberg -- Six years too late : chasing our destiny in the electronic publishing age / Jill Emery -- Academic libraries as scholarly publishers / Dorothea Salo -- Game on! : meeting the needs of gamers in the library / Beth Gallaway -- Thriving in the age of Google / Joseph Janes -- Libraries and the read/write Web / Michael Stephens -- Libraries and privacy / Robert Bocher -- An experience to remember : building positive experiences on library Web sites / David King -- Library 2.0 / Jenny Levine -- Get a second life! : libraries in virtual worlds / Rhonda B. Trueman, Tom Peters, and Lori Bell -- Librarianship + technology + instructional design = blended librarian / John D. Shank and Steven J. Bell -- Training librarians for the future : integrating technology into LIS education / Meredith G. Farkas -- Technophobia, technostress, and technorealism / Jessamyn West -- Reading tea leaves : one past, many futures / Alane Wilson.