Susanna Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanna Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ayelet Even-Ezra, Lines of Thought
Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing
This paper examines how the Dresden artist and oculist Georg Bartisch (1535–ca. 1607) transformed theoretical discussions around painting and drawing, insofar as he connected the hand and mind of the artist with those of the surgeon. Bartisch articulated his theories about the links between painting and drawing, on the one hand, and surgical prowess, on the other, in a manuscript on lithotomy entitled Kunstbuch (1575), and in another tract entitl…
Meaning and understanding in intellectual history
This article responds to Quentin Skinner’s chapter ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ in his book From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by raising methodological questions concerning meaning and understanding in the study of intellectual history. It focuses on three methodological issues pertaining to the examination of visual contexts in intellectual history, and specifically pertaining to the study of early modern Europe…
From Narcissus to Narcosis
This essay examines the Narcissus ( c . 1599–1620) that has been attributed to Caravaggio through the lens of cultural history before exploiting a methodology that understands Caravaggio's paintings and those of his followers as works that thematize their own fictiveness. I move beyond this method by thinking about how such self‐aware paintings could likewise thematize the potential fictiveness of visual experience. In so doing, I examine scienti…
The Art of Philosophy
The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks
This chapter turns to the functions of images integrated into manuscript sources. It presents the first analysis of the visual representations in the Paris philosophy notebooks. It demonstrates how the study of printed visual representations and the activity of drawing became central components of philosophical training in the early modern period. As this chapter is the first to deal with drawn materials, it begins with a brief excursus on theore…
Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum
This chapter turns to the notebooks of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century students of logic in Paris and Leuven to demonstrate further the ways in which visual representations, including diagrams of the Porphyrian tree and the square of opposition, along with allegorical and figurative illustrations, were critical in the teaching and development of Aristotelian scholastic philosophy. It shows that lecture notebooks, as well as contemporaneous al…
Apin’s Cabinet of Printed Curiosities
This chapter explores the ways in which visual representations both succeeded and failed as instruments of knowledge. It opens with an account of a dissertation about methods of learning with mnemonic printed images that appeared in a revised edition in 1731 and was authored by Siegmund Jacob Apin (1693–1732). The first part of this treatise refers to key pedagogical visual representations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the…
The Art of Philosophy
Art of Philosophy
The invention of wisdom in Jean Chéron's illustrated thesis print
I would also like to acknowledge Jill Kraye, Berthold Kress, Jean Michel Massing, Elizabeth McGrath, and Joshua Walden for their detailed feedback. I am grateful to David Butterfield for his assistance with the Latin translations. Thanks are also due to Stephen Ferguson, Curator of Rare Books at the Princeton University Library, for help in securing photographs for this article. This work was supported by the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowshi…
Meaning and understanding in intellectual history
This article responds to Quentin Skinner’s chapter ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ in his book From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by raising methodological questions concerning meaning and understanding in the study of intellectual history. It focuses on three methodological issues pertaining to the examination of visual contexts in intellectual history, and specifically pertaining to the study of early modern Europe…
The invention of wisdom in Jean Chéron's illustrated thesis print
I would also like to acknowledge Jill Kraye, Berthold Kress, Jean Michel Massing, Elizabeth McGrath, and Joshua Walden for their detailed feedback. I am grateful to David Butterfield for his assistance with the Latin translations. Thanks are also due to Stephen Ferguson, Curator of Rare Books at the Princeton University Library, for help in securing photographs for this article. This work was supported by the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowshi…
The Art of Philosophy
The Visible Order of Student Lecture Notebooks
This chapter turns to the functions of images integrated into manuscript sources. It presents the first analysis of the visual representations in the Paris philosophy notebooks. It demonstrates how the study of printed visual representations and the activity of drawing became central components of philosophical training in the early modern period. As this chapter is the first to deal with drawn materials, it begins with a brief excursus on theore…
Visual Thinking in Logic Notebooks and Alba amicorum
This chapter turns to the notebooks of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century students of logic in Paris and Leuven to demonstrate further the ways in which visual representations, including diagrams of the Porphyrian tree and the square of opposition, along with allegorical and figurative illustrations, were critical in the teaching and development of Aristotelian scholastic philosophy. It shows that lecture notebooks, as well as contemporaneous al…
Apin’s Cabinet of Printed Curiosities
This chapter explores the ways in which visual representations both succeeded and failed as instruments of knowledge. It opens with an account of a dissertation about methods of learning with mnemonic printed images that appeared in a revised edition in 1731 and was authored by Siegmund Jacob Apin (1693–1732). The first part of this treatise refers to key pedagogical visual representations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the…
The Art of Philosophy
Art of Philosophy
Meaning and understanding in intellectual history
This article responds to Quentin Skinner’s chapter ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ in his book From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics by raising methodological questions concerning meaning and understanding in the study of intellectual history. It focuses on three methodological issues pertaining to the examination of visual contexts in intellectual history, and specifically pertaining to the study of early modern Europe…
From Narcissus to Narcosis
This essay examines the Narcissus ( c . 1599–1620) that has been attributed to Caravaggio through the lens of cultural history before exploiting a methodology that understands Caravaggio's paintings and those of his followers as works that thematize their own fictiveness. I move beyond this method by thinking about how such self‐aware paintings could likewise thematize the potential fictiveness of visual experience. In so doing, I examine scienti…
Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing
This paper examines how the Dresden artist and oculist Georg Bartisch (1535–ca. 1607) transformed theoretical discussions around painting and drawing, insofar as he connected the hand and mind of the artist with those of the surgeon. Bartisch articulated his theories about the links between painting and drawing, on the one hand, and surgical prowess, on the other, in a manuscript on lithotomy entitled Kunstbuch (1575), and in another tract entitl…
Ayelet Even-Ezra, Lines of Thought
Philosophy (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)