Anthony Ossa‐richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Ossa‐richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Ossa‐richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Disappearance of Leo Africanus
This article is about two twentieth-century attempts to produce an edition of the famous Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526) by Johannes Leo Africanus. One attempt was French, colonial, collaboratively authored, presentist and successful; the other was Italian, academic, single-authored, historicist and unsuccessful, in that it never appeared. Drawing primarily on unstudied archival material from several countries, I reconstruct the trajec…
Rens Bod, A World of Patterns
On Paradox
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta
Ethan Shagan, The Birth of Modern Belief
The Phonostate at the End of History
This article tells the story of the eccentric and unknown writer Albert William Alderson (1880–1963), a British South African office clerk whose father had helped found the De Beers diamond mining corporation with Cecil Rhodes. Alderson, despite having no academic background, wrote two books and several pamphlets arguing that world peace could be achieved by eliminating all the languages in the world other than English; he buttressed this claim w…
A History of Ambiguity
A History of Ambiguity
Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. This book r…
Shadows of Doubt
Book Review| January 01 2017 Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture Tutino, Stefania, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 278 pp. Anthony Ossa-Richardson Anthony Ossa-Richardson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 110. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3692393 Cite Icon Cite Share…
The devil wins
Paul Kléber Monod, Solomon’s Secret Arts
The Devil's Tabernacle
This is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. The book shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, R…
Solutions
This chapter deals with the aftermath of the Fontenelle–Baltus exchange, and its eventual overcoming, via a series of new perspectives and scholarly disciplines, in the transformed intellectual world of the nineteenth century. In the new century we find the imposture thesis in all the authors and texts we would expect: in the English Deists, John Toland, Matthew Tindal, and Conyers Middleton; in the exiled Italians, Pietro Giannone and Alberto Ra…
The Birth of the Past
Zachary Sayre Schiffman, The Birth of the Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), xvi + 316 pp., $65, ISBN-13: 978-1421402789 In 2004, the Chicago professor Constantin Fasolt publis
Possession or Insanity
This article examines a controversy, between two English asylum chaplains of the 1850s, about the nature of demonic possession in the New Testament. I trace both chaplains' views to German theological debates on the subject from the late eighteenth century, and show how these discussions chimed with new theories about 'moral insanity' being developed by contemporary psychiatrists in England and France. Finally, I argue that the compromise between…
Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Rôle of Nature in Oracular Divination
Since the early decades of the sixteenth century, Pomponazzi has been a name to conjure with: to some, the first of the modern atheists; to others, a hero of the new philosophy. But how much direct influence did his work have? This question is explored in terms of the way in which oracular divination is treated. In the sixteenth century, the range of conceptual categories available to explain such phenomena was threefold: natural, supernatural or…
From Servius to Frazer
From Servius to Frazer
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Rôle of Nature in Oracular Divination
Since the early decades of the sixteenth century, Pomponazzi has been a name to conjure with: to some, the first of the modern atheists; to others, a hero of the new philosophy. But how much direct influence did his work have? This question is explored in terms of the way in which oracular divination is treated. In the sixteenth century, the range of conceptual categories available to explain such phenomena was threefold: natural, supernatural or…
Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment
The Devil's Tabernacle
This is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. The book shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, R…
Solutions
This chapter deals with the aftermath of the Fontenelle–Baltus exchange, and its eventual overcoming, via a series of new perspectives and scholarly disciplines, in the transformed intellectual world of the nineteenth century. In the new century we find the imposture thesis in all the authors and texts we would expect: in the English Deists, John Toland, Matthew Tindal, and Conyers Middleton; in the exiled Italians, Pietro Giannone and Alberto Ra…
The Birth of the Past
Zachary Sayre Schiffman, The Birth of the Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), xvi + 316 pp., $65, ISBN-13: 978-1421402789 In 2004, the Chicago professor Constantin Fasolt publis
Possession or Insanity
This article examines a controversy, between two English asylum chaplains of the 1850s, about the nature of demonic possession in the New Testament. I trace both chaplains' views to German theological debates on the subject from the late eighteenth century, and show how these discussions chimed with new theories about 'moral insanity' being developed by contemporary psychiatrists in England and France. Finally, I argue that the compromise between…
Paul Kléber Monod, Solomon’s Secret Arts
The devil wins
Shadows of Doubt
Book Review| January 01 2017 Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture Tutino, Stefania, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 278 pp. Anthony Ossa-Richardson Anthony Ossa-Richardson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 110. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3692393 Cite Icon Cite Share…
A History of Ambiguity
A History of Ambiguity
Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. This book r…
Ethan Shagan, The Birth of Modern Belief
The Phonostate at the End of History
This article tells the story of the eccentric and unknown writer Albert William Alderson (1880–1963), a British South African office clerk whose father had helped found the De Beers diamond mining corporation with Cecil Rhodes. Alderson, despite having no academic background, wrote two books and several pamphlets arguing that world peace could be achieved by eliminating all the languages in the world other than English; he buttressed this claim w…
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta
Rens Bod, A World of Patterns
On Paradox
The Disappearance of Leo Africanus
This article is about two twentieth-century attempts to produce an edition of the famous Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526) by Johannes Leo Africanus. One attempt was French, colonial, collaboratively authored, presentist and successful; the other was Italian, academic, single-authored, historicist and unsuccessful, in that it never appeared. Drawing primarily on unstudied archival material from several countries, I reconstruct the trajec…
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