The Natural Philosophy Of Emanuel Swedenborg
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Author | : David Duner |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400745605 |
Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science. During this period, Swedenborg thought of the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. This volume analyzes this mechanistic worldview from the cognitive perspective, by means of a study of the metaphors in Swedenborg’s texts. The author argues that these conceptual metaphors are vital skills of the creative mind and scientific thinking, used to create visual analogies and abstract ideas. This means that Swedenborg’s mechanistic and geometrical worldview, allowed him to perceive the world as mechanical and geometrical. Swedenborg thought ”with” books and pens. The reading gave him associations and clues, forced him to interpret, and gave him material for his intellectual development.
Author | : Devin P. Zuber |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813943523 |
Long overlooked, the natural philosophy and theosophy of the Scandinavian scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) made a surprising impact in America. Thomas Jefferson, while president, was so impressed with the message of a Baltimore Swedenborgian minister that he invited him to address both houses of Congress. But Swedenborgian thought also made its contribution to nineteenth-century American literature, particularly within the aesthetics of American Transcendentalism. Although various scholars have addressed how American Romanticism was affected by different currents of Continental thought and religious ideology, surprisingly no book has yet described the specific ways that American Romantics made persistent recourse to Swedenborg for their respective projects to re-enchant nature. In A Language of Things, Devin Zuber offers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental role that religious experience could play in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Sarah Orne Jewett, among others, variously responded to Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological. A Language of Things situates this dynamic within some of the recent "new materialisms" of environmental thought, showing how these earlier authors anticipate present concerns with the other-than-human in the Anthropocene.
Author | : Valery Rees |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2020-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004437428 |
Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’.
Author | : Douglas Taylor |
Publisher | : Swedenborg Foundation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780877853404 |
Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of the soul. Scattered throughout his theological works is a description of a complex system of interaction between our "natural" minds (our everyday thoughts and feelings) and our spiritual minds, which are in touch with the divine. This book takes those scattered descriptions and weaves them into a coherent system that is invaluable for understanding Swedenborg's thought -- and our own.
Author | : Wilson Van Dusen |
Publisher | : Chrysalis Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780877853121 |
An account of the monumental journey of eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg into the depths of his own mind and to spiritual worlds beyond.
Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Future life |
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Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
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Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Psychology |
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Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1758 |
Genre | : Future life |
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Author | : Wilson Van Dusen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
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A psychologist draws from personal experience, work with psychiatric patients, and Eastern and Western philosophy to explore the inner world.
Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : New Century Edition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780877854159 |
"Swedenborg's brief summary of his teachings about the New Jerusalem, the new spiritual age that he said began in the eighteenth century, with extensive references to his multi-volume Secrets of Heaven for further reading"--