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 ...
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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.
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1997, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
