Angelus Silesius' «Cherubinischer Wandersmann»: A Modern Reading with Selected Translations

ISBN-13: 9780820437347 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 174 str.

Maria M. Beohm

Opis

The highly condensed and often coded philosophical messages of some of Silesius' epigrams are translated into English and reinterpreted in a way that they reveal their universality and relevance to modern times. The -Word- is a recurring topic in the "Cherubinischer Wandersmann." The -Word- (Logos) is closely related to the idea of creation. In Angelus Silesius, creation, both divine and human, is a central issue. The topic of creation is of keen interest to the contemporary reader as well, for it ties in with current theories of mind-matter connections of both post-Einsteinian physicists and contemporary psychoanalysis. Thus the Silesian -Angel- of seventeenth-century Germany has much to say to the modern reader in all places."

O autorze

The Author: Maria M. Böhm, a native of Germany, has lived in a number of countries and considers herself a citizen of the world. She received her academic degrees in the United States and Mexico and has been a teacher of Spanish and German in several Mexican and North American universities. She is now Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.