Zeitsprünge

During his entire academic career, the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind pointed out on several occasions that art, science, and an ethical-political stance should be regarded as closely linked. In this context, he assigned a fundamental role...

The essay traces the history of the concept of imaginary sickness in the 17th and 18th centuries. It argues for a history of discourses in a strong sense and strives to complement the history of the concept of hypochondria with an analysis of...

In eighteenth-century aesthetics nature was often seen not as a finite resource, but as a resource for imagining infinity. The paper follows Jacques Rancière’s thesis in Le temps du paysage. Aux origins de la révolution esthétique (2020) that...

The theosophical author and Görlitz mystic Jacob Böhme (1575 – 1624) developed an elaborate theory of imagination across his oeuvre. According to him, imagination is the basis of the divine formation of the world in an infinite magical...