Abstract & Overview
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 rellevant 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 books tries to underline the integration of the second scholasticism within the framework of modern thought.