Abstract
Although the individual as a concept had significant purchase on the cultural imagination long before the early modern period and was certainly a key concept in Christian thought in the west, it became a matter of keen and ongoing social, cultural, and artistic concern in Renaissance Italy in a manner that would have a profound, and in some instances innovative, impact on the rest of Europe.
Portions of this entry were taken from Douglas Biow, On the Importance of Being an Individual: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Biow, D. (2020). Individual, Renaissance Concept of. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1145-2
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