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- Title
Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum.
- Authors
Bulang, Tobias
- Abstract
This article introduces the pseudo-Paracelsian treatise Aurora Philosophorum (last third of the sixteenth century) and focusses on the contexts of a specific genealogy of knowledge presented in this text. It reaches from a divine origin of human knowledge to the universities of the author's times. Here, the transfer of science throughout history is described as a process of continuous decline. The concept of knowledge negotiated by this text is conceptualized not as theory alone: knowledge has a genuine in-strumental and practical aspect. The article also presents the principles of the forthcoming edition and commentary of the handwritten and printed copies of the Aurora Philosophorum.
- Subjects
GENEALOGY; SIXTEENTH century; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Early Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 5/6, p473
- ISSN
1383-7427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15733823-02456P04