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Maryanne Cline Horowitz |
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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 Many
articles and chapters are available at academia.edu. Editorial
Boards: Journal of the History of Ideas Brill Series History
of Early Modern Education Thought |
