Hermes--literature, Science, Philosophy

Hermes--literature, Science, Philosophy PDF Author: Michel Serres
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Hermes--literature, Science, Philosophy

Hermes--literature, Science, Philosophy PDF Author: Michel Serres
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Reading with Michel Serres

Reading with Michel Serres PDF Author: Maria L. Assad
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791442296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.

Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time

Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time PDF Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers

The Parasite

The Parasite PDF Author:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The Arabic Hermes

The Arabic Hermes PDF Author: Kevin van Bladel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199704481
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. Before the more famous Renaissance European reception of the ancient Greek Hermetica, the Arabic tradition about Hermes and the works under his name had been developing and flourishing for seven hundred years. The legendary Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus was renowned in Roman antiquity as an ancient sage whose teachings were represented in books of philosophy and occult science. The works in his name, written in Greek by Egyptians living under Roman rule, subsequently circulated in many languages and regions of the Roman and Sasanian Persian empires. After the rise of Arabic as a prestigious language of scholarship in the eighth century, accounts of Hermes identity and Hermetic texts were translated into Arabic along with the hundreds of other works translated from Greek, Middle Persian, and other literary languages of antiquity. Hermetica were in fact among the earliest translations into Arabic, appearing already in the eighth century. This book explains the origins of the Arabic myth of Hermes Trismegistus, its sources, the reasons for its peculiar character, and its varied significance for the traditions of Hermetica in Asia and northern Africa as well as Europe. It shows who pre-modern Arabic scholars thought Hermes was and how they came to that view.

Mapping Michel Serres

Mapping Michel Serres PDF Author: Niran Abbas
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472030590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher Michel Serres

Genesis

Genesis PDF Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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A lyrical, breathtaking exploration of the chaos and multiplicity that underlie imposed conventions of order

Seeing Double

Seeing Double PDF Author: Peter Pesic
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262661737
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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An exploration of the relationship between quantum theory and concepts of individuality and identity from ancient Greece to the present.

Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire

Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire PDF Author: Vincent Crapanzano
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674389816
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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In essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study, Crapanzano addresses nothing less than the enormous problem of defining the self in both its individual and collective projections.

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus PDF Author: Florian Ebeling
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146482X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric, the Platonist, or the deist has each been able to find something familiar in the writings. One just had to have a penchant for remote antiquity, for the idea of a Golden Age, in order for Hermeticism, with its aura of an ancient Egyptian revelation, to have enjoyed such outstanding success."—from the Introduction Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes," emerged from the amalgamation of the wisdom gods Hermes and Thoth and is one of the most enigmatic figures of intellectual history. Since antiquity, the legendary "wise Egyptian" has been considered the creator of several mystical and magical writings on such topics as alchemy, astrology, medicine, and the transcendence of God. Philosophers of the Renaissance celebrated Hermes Trismegistus as the founder of philosophy, Freemasons called him their forefather, and Enlightenment thinkers championed religious tolerance in his name. To this day, Hermes Trismegistus is one of the central figures of the occult—his name is synonymous with the esoteric. In this scholarly yet accessible introduction to the history of Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes. He traces the impact of Christian and Muslim versions of the figure in medieval Europe, the power of Hermeticism and Paracelsian belief in Renaissance thought, the relationship to Pietism and to Freemasonry in early modern Europe, and the relationship to esotericism and semiotics in the modern world.