Maryanne
Cline Horowitz
Office (323) 259-2583
email: horowitz@oxy.edu
Professor of History, Occidental College
Associate, UCLA Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
|
Maryanne
Cline Horowitz |
|
|
|
|
| Professor Horowitz is the Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), awarded by American Library Association as an Outstanding Reference Source. She is the author of the book Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998). WINNER of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. The book on the image of the mind growing as a garden interprets diverse applications of "semina virtutum et scientarum" as an epistemology, a strategy, a paradigm of science or folk psychology, a literary interetext, a metaphor related to visual images, a language of vegetative growth, as well as a continuing controversy on assessing humanity. See Wikipedia |