Images of Light in the Work of Valentin Weigel: Metaphors or Metaphysics?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Images of Light in the Work of Valentin Weigel: Metaphors or Metaphysics?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Lutheran theologian and Paracelsian Valentin Weigel (1533–1588) is counted as one of the most influential German authors of the 16th century. In his theological and philosophical work, he was inspired by certain ideas and conceptions of a number of authors and sources, including the Bible, Boethius, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, medieval German Mysticism, Italian Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Nicolaus Cusa, Luther, Reformation heterodoxy, and Paracelsus. One of the recurring motifs in his work is the light and various images associated with it. It is the aim of the present study to analyze whether there is coherent and deliberately used metaphysics of light in Weigel‘s work – as it was found in his sources, particularly in the work of Marsilio Ficino, who at this point also influenced the Paracelsian tradition –, or whether he uses these images rather as metaphorical instruments. Based on a comparison of relevant passages and fragments found in various texts of Weigel (the only one consistently dealing with the subject being the brief treatise De luce et caligine divina), I come to a double answer: 1. Weigel works with metaphysics of the Neo-Platonic (Augustinian, Boethean, Ficinian) style which can be reconstructed from his texts. 2. Nevertheless, as a theologian, he uses the motives of light primarily in a symbolic and metaphorical sense to underpin and interpret his spiritual and mystical ideas.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Images of Light in the Work of Valentin Weigel: Metaphors or Metaphysics?

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Lutheran theologian and Paracelsian Valentin Weigel (1533–1588) is counted as one of the most influential German authors of the 16th century. In his theological and philosophical work, he was inspired by certain ideas and conceptions of a number of authors and sources, including the Bible, Boethius, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, medieval German Mysticism, Italian Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Nicolaus Cusa, Luther, Reformation heterodoxy, and Paracelsus. One of the recurring motifs in his work is the light and various images associated with it. It is the aim of the present study to analyze whether there is coherent and deliberately used metaphysics of light in Weigel‘s work – as it was found in his sources, particularly in the work of Marsilio Ficino, who at this point also influenced the Paracelsian tradition –, or whether he uses these images rather as metaphorical instruments. Based on a comparison of relevant passages and fragments found in various texts of Weigel (the only one consistently dealing with the subject being the brief treatise De luce et caligine divina), I come to a double answer: 1. Weigel works with metaphysics of the Neo-Platonic (Augustinian, Boethean, Ficinian) style which can be reconstructed from his texts. 2. Nevertheless, as a theologian, he uses the motives of light primarily in a symbolic and metaphorical sense to underpin and interpret his spiritual and mystical ideas.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Mezi renesancí a barokem: Filosofie a vědění v českých zemích a jejich širší evropský kontext</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Acta Comeniana: International Review of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History

ISSN

0231-5955

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2018, 32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

56

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

9-28

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85083888839