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Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)

German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Religious Tolerance
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
227 Seiten
Englisch
State University of New York Presserschienen am18.11.1999
This is the first book-length treatment in English of a central but neglected figure in German intellectual history, Valentin Weigel (1533-1588). Like his great contemporary Michel de Montaigne, Weigel anticipated the advent of a tolerant culture of individual knowledge and conscience. In the wake of the German Reformation, the dissenting Lutheran pastor Weigel argued for the inner autonomy of the lay individual in search of knowledge and salvation. His writing recapitulates the traditions of medieval mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Tauler, the Theologia Germanica). Renaissance philosophy (Cusanus, Paracelsus), and Reformation-era dissent (Sebastian Franck). In Weigel's work, these disparate sources come together in a lucid synthesis that stimulated protest and opposition against intolerance and oppression.
Taking into account the latest research and editorial achievements of scholars in Germany, this book summarizes what is known of Weigel's life, characterizes the conflicts of his times, discusses his sources, analyzes his writing work by work, and considers his impact on the emergence of tolerance in Germany.
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KlappentextThis is the first book-length treatment in English of a central but neglected figure in German intellectual history, Valentin Weigel (1533-1588). Like his great contemporary Michel de Montaigne, Weigel anticipated the advent of a tolerant culture of individual knowledge and conscience. In the wake of the German Reformation, the dissenting Lutheran pastor Weigel argued for the inner autonomy of the lay individual in search of knowledge and salvation. His writing recapitulates the traditions of medieval mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Tauler, the Theologia Germanica). Renaissance philosophy (Cusanus, Paracelsus), and Reformation-era dissent (Sebastian Franck). In Weigel's work, these disparate sources come together in a lucid synthesis that stimulated protest and opposition against intolerance and oppression.
Taking into account the latest research and editorial achievements of scholars in Germany, this book summarizes what is known of Weigel's life, characterizes the conflicts of his times, discusses his sources, analyzes his writing work by work, and considers his impact on the emergence of tolerance in Germany.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7914-4440-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr1999
Erscheinungsdatum18.11.1999
Seiten227 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 149 mm, Höhe 225 mm, Dicke 13 mm
Gewicht308 g
Artikel-Nr.13551863

Autor

Andrew Weeks is Associate Professor of German, Illinois State University. He is the author of Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic; German Mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History; and Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and The Crisis of the Early Reformation, all published by SUNY Press.