Paracelsus
speculative theory and the crisis of the early Reformation
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Author
Publication
1997 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL979332M
- ISBN-100791431479
- OCLC Control Number34545661
- OCLC Control Numberparacelsusspecul00week
- Library of Congress Control Number96016616
and 2 more
- LibraryThing658407
- Goodreads953637
Classifications
- DDC199/.494
- LCCB785.P24 W35 1997
Description
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.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
Other Editions
- Paracelsus: speculative theory and the crisis of the early Reformation
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