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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“In my mind’s eye”: Species, Phantasms, Skepticism, and the Phantasy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in Early Modern Theater

Part I. “He thinks tis but our fantasy”: The Ontology and Epistemology of Ghosts and Spirits In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the skeptical and possibly Stoic Horatio reveals to the melancholic eponymous prince that he has seen a phantasm. Before Horatio can even reveal his harrowing yet problematic tale of seeing a “form like [Hamlet’s] father,” […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, Scholarship, William Shakespeare, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism Tagged William Shakespeare, delusions, philosophical skepticism, early modern senses, cultural studies, Rene Descartes, renaissance, perimaterial, Descartes, Raleigh, senses, ghosts, early modern, Ralegh, Shakespeare, spirits, epistemology, supernatural, skepticism, drama, history of science, Galenic humoralism, vision, Johann Weyer, history of the senses, accounts of demons and witchcraft, Reginald Scot, imagination, Hamlet, optics, Robert Burton, Malleus Maleficarum, paramaterial, history of vision, witches, Phantasy

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy. Part One.

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy.

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Part I. The Three Fleshly Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Augustine famously discusses the three eyes of a perceiver. He details that, first, there is the eye of the flesh. Second, […]

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Posted in Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense, Early Modern Senses Tagged lens, optical anatomy, anatomy, optics, Augustine, paramaterial, crystalline humor, Platter, Descartes, senses, early modern, vesalius, eye, vision, history of science, history of the senses, Kepler

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy. Part Two.

This entry is part [part not set] of 2 in the series The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy.

The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutions in the Microcosm and Macrocosm and the Crystalline Humor in the Three Eyes of Early Modern Optical Anatomy Part II. The Revolution of the Eye and De-centering the Eye’s Sovereign In the first section, I discussed Andre du Laurens’ extended metaphorical treatment of the eye’s structure. There, du Laurens […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, Scholarship, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism Tagged optics, paramaterial, Ambroise Paré, science, anatomy, senses, Augustine, sight, Descartes, skepticism, early modern, vision, Helkiah Crooke, History of medicine, history of science, Kepler

The “plague of phantasms”: Petrarch’s Secretum and the Paramaterial Objects of Sense in Human and Non-Human Animals

In Petrarch’s Secretum written somewhere between 1347 and 1353 and circulated posthumously, Petrarch shapes a dialogue between himself and a fictionalized Augustine. Augustine chastises and instructs Petrarch for favoring an attention to the world over devotion to God and spiritual things. Towards the end of book one of this dialogue, Augustine reveals the tensions inherent […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense Tagged imagination, ontology, Albertus Magnus, optics, animal studies, paramaterial, cultural studies, Petrarch, early modern, Phantasy, epistemology, renaissance, Francesco Petrarcha, Secretum, history of he mind, senses, history of science, history of the senses 1 Comment

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