Metaphors of the Human Heart and Their Epistemological Shifts after 1600. A Case Study in Changes in Wittenberg Natural Philosophy and Discourses of Power

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.85" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.85</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.85" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2025.1s.85</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Metaphors of the Human Heart and Their Epistemological Shifts after 1600. A Case Study in Changes in Wittenberg Natural Philosophy and Discourses of Power

Original language description

This study examines how the metaphor of the heart was used and what role it played in a political context in a particular type of text outside elite scholarly discourse, namely the relatively short occasional and student texts associated with teaching at the University of Wittenberg and other Protestant universities in the German lands. First, the ideas about the heart transmitted in the context of the teaching of anatomy at Wittenberg are analysed. The didactic poetry of Nicolaus Selnecker illustrates how the heart functioned in the metaphorical thinking of Wittenberg students and how it was related to political discourse. An analysis of the Latin poems of Tomáš Mitis shows how corporeal metaphorical thinking was adapted in the intellectual exchange between Wittenberg and Bohemia. Michael Maier’s lesser-known alchemical and medical works are used to illustrate the changing functions of the heart metaphor and the epistemological shifts associated with the imagination of the heart after 1600.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: The Origins of Modern Encyclopaedism: Launching Evolutionary Metaphorology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

85-111

UT code for WoS article

001651309100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105030127298