Jacob Böhme and His World Andersson, Bo; Martin, Lucinda; Penman, Leigh ...
2018, Letnik:
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This volume deepens our understanding of Jacob Böhme's texts and contexts and facilitates future research. It encompasses sections on the text-centered approach to Böhme, facets of his environment, ...and aspects of his influence which bring latent features of his writings to light.
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic ...Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme’s thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme’s visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the “Gnostic return” claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O’Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme’s visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention.
Jacob Boehme's beautiful and influential Aurora (1612) with an English translation opposite its source. Commentary on themes and concepts sheds light on the work and its impact on poetry, philosophy, ...and mystical religion. The volume includes Boehme's Fundamental Report (1620).
In this book, Professor Simuț demonstrates how Baur came to understand Christian theology as a Gnostic philosophy of religion under the influence of Böhme's unorthodox esoteric theosophy and Hegel's ...modern religious philosophy.
These appropriations fall into two main groups: those pertaining to the name Böhme or a life assigned to it, and those involving concepts or images from the mystic's oeuvre. The first group ...constituted an attempt to co-opt the aura of sanctity attached to portrayals of the poet-prophet in order to invest Romantic Poesie with the sacral standing of religion. The second group, exemplified by Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling, involved the borrowing and radical redefinition of a few concepts and images from Böhme's work in the hope of bridging the gap between the abstract first principle of idealism and the personal God that became an emotional necessity for both thinkers.
Jacob Boehme's Aurora (Morgen Röte im auffgang, 1612) exercised a vast open or underground influence on popular and mystical religion, poetry, and philosophy from Germany to England to Russia. This ...beautiful and highly original work containing elements of alchemical, esoteric, and anticlerical thought is a portal to the cultural, scientific, and theological currents on the eve of the Thirty Years' War. Its author heralded the new heliocentrism, opposed intolerance and religious conflict, and entertained an ecstatic vision of order reconciled with freedom. This first modern English translation places the translated text opposite an edition of the German manuscript from the author's own hand. Also included is the brief, influential Fundamental Report (Gründlicher Bericht, 1620) in a critical edition and translation. An extensive commentary that cites documents of the time offers access to the sources of Boehme's themes and concepts.
This is the first comprehensive account of the development of the ideas on gender of Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) among his English followers, tracing the changes in gender and sexuality in such esoteric ...traditions as alchemy, hermeticism and the Cabala. The book argues that Behmenist thought in these areas is a neglected aspect of the revision in the moral status of women during the early modern period, contributing significantly to the rise of the Romantic notion of womanhood and 'Victorian' sexual ideology. It deals with English Behmenism from its reception during the Interregnum through to its impact upon William Blake and the Swedenborgians in the eighteenth century. The book also strongly challenges received opinions on the relationship of Behmenism to the English radical tradition.
Par le biais d'une methode philologique, historique, et philosophique, ce livre etablit l'absence de lien direct entre Maitre Eckhart et Jacob Bohme. En realite, le concept de la "philosophie ...mystique allemande", commencant soit disant avec Eckhart et finissant avec Bohme, a son origine dans la philosophie romantique du 19eme siecle et est toujours en usage aujourd'hui. L'etude se concentre sur la theorie eckhartienne du "grunt" et de l'"abgrunt" et sur sa relation possible avec la theorie bohmienne de l'"Ungrund". elle montre que les differences entre les deux theories sont essentielles et qu'elles aboutissent a une opposition philosophique profonde entre l'intellectualisme de Maitre Eckhart et le volontarisme de Bohme. Ainsi, il faudrait reviser aussi bien la relation de Bohme a Maitre Eckhart que la place de ce dernier au sein de l'histoire de la philosophie.Through methods of philology, history, and philosophy, this book establishes that there is no direct connection between Master Eckhart and Jacob Bohme. The concept of the "German mystic philosophy", starting supposedly with Eckhart and ending with Bohme, actually has its origin in the Romantic philosophy of the 19th century and and is still usual today. This study focuses on the eckhartian theory of the "grunt" and "abgrunt" and its possible relation to the bohmist theory of the "Ungrund". It shows that the differences between both theories are significant and that they culminate in a deep philosophical opposition between the intellectualism of Master Eckhart and the voluntarism of Bohme. Thus, both Bohme's relationship to Master Eckhart and the position of the latter in the history of philosophy should be revised.
