Ebook: Jacob Böhme and his world

Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. 0Jacob Boehme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Boehme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and social context and the intellectual currents of his time, including Boehme's writing as literature, the social conditions in Goerlitz, Boehme's correspondence networks, a contemporary "crisis of Piety", Paracelsian and Kabbalistic currents, astrology, astronomy and alchemy, and his relationship to other dissenting authors. Relevant facets of reception include Boehme's philosophical standing, his contributions to pre-Pietism, and early English translations of his works.;Jacob Bohme's writings in the context of his world / Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson -- The rhetoric of presence : reflections on Jacob Böhme's writing / Bo Andersson -- The city of Görlitz during Jacob Böhme's lifetime / Ines Haaser (Anders) -- Jacob Böhme and his networks / Leigh T.I. Penman -- Martin Möller (1547-1606) and the "crisis of piety" of Jacob Böhme's time / Lucinda Martin -- Johann Arndt (1555-1621) and the "crisis of piety" of Jacob Böhme's time / Kristine Hannak -- The new Adam Jacob Böhme and the theology of Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) / Urs Leo Gantenbein -- "Out of himself, to himself" : the kabbalah of Jacob Böhme / Gerold Necker -- Jacob Böhme, Johannes Staricius (ca. 1580-??), and the culture of dissent / Andrew Weeks -- The science of the stars in Jacob Böhme's world / Lutz Pannier -- Jacob Böhme and alchemy : a transmutation in three stages / Mike A. Zuber -- "A philosopher does not stand still" legacies and receptions of the "philosophus teutonicus" / Cecilia Muratori -- Spiritualism and cultures of dissent Johann Theodor von Tschesch interprets Jacob Böhme / Tunde Beatrix Karnitscher -- Jacob Böhme's foremost seventeenth century English translator : John Sparrow (1615-1670) of Essex / Ariel Hessayon -- Concluding bibliographical remarks / Lucinda Martin and Leigh Penman -- Index.