Petrarch’s Ascent of Mont Ventoux and Philosophy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F19%3A73598322" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/19:73598322 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333178208" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333178208</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37240/AHFiMS.2019.64.5" target="_blank" >10.37240/AHFiMS.2019.64.5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Petrarch’s Ascent of Mont Ventoux and Philosophy

Original language description

The aim of the paper is to determine the philosophical meaning of Francesco Petrarch’s famous letter addressed to Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro, dated in the year 1336. The letter, which describes Petrarch’s ascent of Mont Ventoux and his experience on the summit allows for multiple interpretations. Similarly to the interpretation of Petrarch’s entire work, the literary context has been emphasized and the philosophical meaning of the letter has been somewhat neglected. Different philosophical interpretations are discussed in the paper. Petrarch’s catch-phrase “desire to see” as the poet’s motivation of the venture is the starting point for the most. Apart from the popular alpinist context, which is doubtful, the letter was considered as the beginning of the aestetisation of the landscape or as the emergence of the subject-object philosophical paradigm. The symbolic and metaphoric understanding of physical and spiritual ways is another interpretation level of the letter. Finally, the letter can be viewed as an expression of a general philosophical attitude to the world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej

ISSN

0066-6874

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64/2019

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

81-94

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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