Frederik Stjernfelt: An Alchemist in Chains
An Alchemist in Chains
Buch
- The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona
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EUR 85,03*
- de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 09/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783111479729
- Bestellnummer: 11937983
- Umfang: 274 Seiten
- Sonstiges: 22 b/w and 6 col. illustrations
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of early eighteenth-century Europe.Born at the Burg Frankenstein in the South of Germany, he was a truly cosmopolitan figure, straying between France, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and various German states. From 1714-1719, he was in Altona near Hamburg, then the second city of Denmark-Norway. Here, a labyrinthine case was brought against him, terminating with his banishment to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
This book is the first to investigate in detail the
Case Against Dippel
in Altona, pitting him in a struggle against the strongest noble couple of Denmark-Norway, the Reventlows, presiding in Altona. It was a case involving libel, bribes, corruption, but also branching into blasphemy and gold-making.
The investigation of the
Case Against Dippel
is embedded in a narrative of what is known about his frantic life and defiant thought before and after his seven-years' incarceration. The whole story throws a new light upon the challenging question of the origin of Modernity and the clandestine connections between radical pietism and radical Enlightenment.
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Frederik Stjernfelt
An Alchemist in Chains
EUR 85,03*