Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22564-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 219, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The interplay between knowledge and religion forms a pivotal component of how early modern individuals and societies understood themselves and their surroundings. Knowledge of the self in pursuit of salvation, humanistic knowledge within a confessional education, as well as inherently subversive knowledge acquired about religion(s) offer instructive instances of this interplay. To these are added essays on medical knowledge in its religious and social contexts, the changing role of imagination in scientific thought, the philosophical and political problems of representation, and attempts to counter Enlightenment criteria of knowledge at the end of the period, serving here as multifaceted studies of the dynamics and shifts in sensitivity and stress in the interplay between knowledge and religion within evolving early modern contexts.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the religious, intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, as well as in premodern philosophical, scientific and medical knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ben-Tov, Asaph

Deutsch, Yaacov

Herzig, Tamar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Contributors
Introduction, Tamar Herzig

PART I: RELIGION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION

“Eruditio Ancilla Reformationis”: Theodore Beza and the Uses of History in the Icones, Myriam Yardeni

General Confession and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Catholicism, Moshe Sluhovsky

PART II: MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Imagination, Passions, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: From Lipsius to Descartes, Raz Chen-Morris

Love for All: The Medical Discussion of Lovesickness in Jacob Zahalon’s The Treasure of Life (Otzar ha-Hayyim), Michal Altbauer-Rudnik

PART III: KNOWLEDGE OF NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS

Religious Rituals and Ethnographic Knowledge: Sixteenth-Century Descriptions of Circumcision, Yaacov Deutsch

Islam, Eastern Christianity, and Superstition according to Some Early Modern English Observers, Zur Shalev

Pagan Gods in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Universities: A Sketch, Asaph Ben-Tov

PART IV:ENLIGHTENMENT AND COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT

Between Representation and Impersonation: Rousseau on Theatre and Politics, David Heyd

The Invention of the Counter-Enlightenment: The Case for the Defense, Joseph Mali

Afterword: The Changing Contours of Early Modern Intellectual History, Theodore K. Rabb

Michael Heyd: A Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Herzig, Tamar
Tamar Herzig, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in early modern history at Tel Aviv University and the author of Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (The University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Deutsch, Yaacov
Yaacov Deutsch, Ph.D (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem is head of the History Department at David Yellin College and Executive Director of the World Union of Jewish Studies. He is the author of Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Ben-Tov, Asaph
Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Currently working on the role of Classics and Oriental Studies at German universities of the Early Enlightenment. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (Brill, 2009).

Asaph Ben-Tov, Ph.D. (2007) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Currently working on the role of Classics and Oriental Studies at German universities of the Early Enlightenment. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (Brill, 2009).

Yaacov Deutsch, Ph.D (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem is head of the History Department at David Yellin College and Executive Director of the World Union of Jewish Studies. He is the author of Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Tamar Herzig, Ph.D. (2005) in History, Hebrew University Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in early modern history at Tel Aviv University and the author of Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (The University of Chicago Press, 2008).