BOOK: Rafael Ramis BARCELÓ, La Segunda Escolástica. Una propuesta de síntesis histórica (Madrid: Dykinson, 2024), pp. 443 (open access)

ABOUT THE BOOK 

This book is a historical synthesis of the second scholasticism. Based on the sociology of science and the history of ideas, a study method is proposed, a chronological division, with various periods and stages, is explained, highlighting the causes and consequences and the most relevant features of each era. Starting from three dimensions (schools, authors and themes), the development of the second scholasticism is studied, in dialogue with the other manifestations of the culture of its time, and in the epilogue the transition to the third scholasticism is analyzed. This book tries to underline the integration of the second scholasticism within the framework of modern thought.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rafael Ramis Barceló (Mallorca, 1983) is Full Professor of History of Law and Institutions and deputy director of the Institute of Hispanic Studies in Modernity (IEHM) of the University of the Balearic Islands. He graduated in Law, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Religious Sciences, Political Science and Sociology, and received a doctorate in Law. His lines of research are the history of legal thought, the history of universities and the history of ideas (15th-18th centuries).

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