Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Paolo Rossi; Stephen Clucas, trans.

ISBN 10: 0826488617 / ISBN 13: 9780826488619

Published by Continuum, 2006

About this Item

In English and Latin. About 11 percent of the pages of the text contains underlining and brief marginalia in pen and ink. The rest of the text is clean and unmarked. The cover shows little sign of wear.

Seller Inventory # 516

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826488617
• ISBN 13: 9780826488619
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas.

About the Author

Paolo Rossi is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Florence and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.Stephen Clucas is lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.