Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum

Tobias Bulang

Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum

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Tobias Bulang

Tobias Bulang Germanistisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg

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Pages:: 61–72

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503380_005

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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 instrumental 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.

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Pseudo-Paracelsus

Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy

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