HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abraham Ortelius, Print Culture, Counter-Reformation
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The renaissance: an age of invention , discovery , and reform ii ; Humanism: the ladder of intellect: infinite perfectibility of man . Print culture: urban proto-classes & capitalism; imagined communities : technology. Planned discovery; new world view (cosmos, earth, man) Reformation: counter-reformation; worldly vs. heavenly; reason vs. religious . "theatre of the world" is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Abraham ortelius, strongly encouraged by gillis hooftman and originally printed on may. An unbridgeable difference exists between them and us . Differences are regarded as innate, unchangeable and hierarchized. Xenophobia (hatred of foreigners) can lie at the origins of racism, but it is not the same thing. World racism first used to describe german nazi ideas about jews. Gave racism a bad name. (p. 2) (-fredrickson, george m. ) Before the holocaust scientific racism was quite respectable. *anti judaism is opposition to the jewish religion. The solution is to convert jews to christianity.
