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Author Weeks, Andrew, 1947-

Title Paracelsus : speculative theory and the crisis of the early Reformation / Andrew Weeks
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
SUBJECT Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 fast
Subject Reformation -- Europe, German-speaking
Renaissance -- Europe, German-speaking
Philosophy, Renaissance.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Renaissance
Reformation
Renaissance
Alchemie.
Reformatie.
Renaissance.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
SUBJECT Europe, German-speaking -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Subject German-speaking Europe
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form Biografieën (vorm)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96016616
ISBN 0585043418
9780585043418