From Circle to Book. The Evolution of Metaphors and the Birth of Early Modern Encyclopaedism

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

From Circle to Book. The Evolution of Metaphors and the Birth of Early Modern Encyclopaedism

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study explores the evolution of encyclopaedism as an early modern intellectual movement, distinct from the traditional philosophies of rationalism and empiricism. It reveals its relation to pansophism, and presents a theoretical framework for researching what I generally call the “history of cultural ideas”, specifically the history of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia. To depict this history, the study further provides a concise survey on the ideas of “circle”, “cycle”, and “sphere” in ancient Greek cosmology, Roman rhetorics, and Transalpine Renaissance Humanism. The contributions of figures such as Johann Heinrich Alsted and Jan Amos Comenius, culminating in Alsted’s 1630 Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta, mark a critical shift from metaphorical “circular knowledge” to a comprehensive embodiment of knowledge in one book on all that can be known (omne scibile). In conclusion, the study argues that the conceptual-metaphorical blending of “circle” and “book” was decisive in this process, shaping the modern understanding of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia.

Název v anglickém jazyce

From Circle to Book. The Evolution of Metaphors and the Birth of Early Modern Encyclopaedism

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study explores the evolution of encyclopaedism as an early modern intellectual movement, distinct from the traditional philosophies of rationalism and empiricism. It reveals its relation to pansophism, and presents a theoretical framework for researching what I generally call the “history of cultural ideas”, specifically the history of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia. To depict this history, the study further provides a concise survey on the ideas of “circle”, “cycle”, and “sphere” in ancient Greek cosmology, Roman rhetorics, and Transalpine Renaissance Humanism. The contributions of figures such as Johann Heinrich Alsted and Jan Amos Comenius, culminating in Alsted’s 1630 Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta, mark a critical shift from metaphorical “circular knowledge” to a comprehensive embodiment of knowledge in one book on all that can be known (omne scibile). In conclusion, the study argues that the conceptual-metaphorical blending of “circle” and “book” was decisive in this process, shaping the modern understanding of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: Počátky novověkého encyklopedismu: Spuštění evoluční metaforologie</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

—

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

35-55

Kód UT WoS článku

001651309100003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105030205032