Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early ReformationSUNY Press, 01.01.1997 - 238 Seiten Paracelsus is regarded as one of the great medical innovators of all time, as a prototype of Goethe's Faust and as a founder of German Renaissance nature philosophy. Recently, his role in the popular "radical Reformation" that coincided with but went beyond Luther's church reform has been recognized as well. A legendary wanderer and rebel, he is an author of undisputed importance, but also one clouded by puzzling ambiguities. Based on a close examination and revised dating of Paracelsus's writings, this book rejects certain myths concerning the author's scientific orientation and experience of nature. The genesis of his thought is traced to his responses to sectarian conflicts of the early Reformation. One can characterize Paracelsus's project as that of a radical theorist who transgressed the boundaries of disciplines and seized upon the irreducible particularities of his phenomena--the transmuted disease or the unrecognized female pathology--to challenge the established order and ideology. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
The Ambiguities of Paracelsus | 21 |
Plague and Salvation | 49 |
Peasant War and Iconoclasm | 77 |
The Liberation of the Divine Image | 101 |
The Voyage of Medicine | 129 |
The World as Mirror | 145 |
The Illumination of Theory | 163 |
Conclusion | 185 |
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Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation Andrew Weeks Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1996 |
Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation Andrew Weeks Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1997 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alchemistic alchemy ander Aristotle arznei arzt Basel Beiträge zur Paracelsusforschung biblical Black Death body Book Christ Christian context creation creature darumb ding disease divine doctrine drei early Reformation elements entities epidemic eternal etliche Eucharist experience faith Faust Faustian firmament Galen geist gemacht Georg Agricola German gott healing heavens himel Hohenheim human Humanistic humors iconoclasm imagination inner invisible knowledge krankheiten Kurt Goldammer liecht light of nature limbus Luther Lutheran macrocosm and microcosm medicine medieval mensch menschen microcosm muß mystical neuen Horizonten notion Nuremberg Oporinus Opus Paramirum Paracelsian theory Paracelsus Paracelsus in neuen Paracelsus's paramiran period person philosophy physician plague recognize Renaissance Salzburg Salzburger Beiträge Schriften Scripture Sebastian Franck seind sixteenth century sonder speculation Sterzing Strasbourg Sudhoff syphilis Theodor Zwinger theology Theophrastus theorica three primary things tion tract tradition transformation treatise trinity University Verlag virtues visible Volumen Paramirum welt Werke wissen zeichen
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