HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Food Fight, Unbridled
Document Summary
Representation of the birth pangs of modern europe out of the. Thiryt years" war: some review, big events in the 17th century: tectonic plates of politics, religion, and individuality were shifting, grimmehlshausen tells a story from below in the genre of the picaresque. Captures the chaos but not as an unmediated representation: causes of the thirty years" war (1618-1648, german/central european, constitutional war between levels of power, war of (nation-)state building. Westphalian system of nation states that determined the course of modern europe and (considering the colonial wars of liberation in the 20th century) the world. Yes, but at a particular juncture of history in europe, this capacity became crucial for individuals to survive in the changing environment: pico della mirandola oration on the dignity of man (1486) Praises man for being the only one of god"s creatures who is flexible and not fixed in his ways.
