Michael Heyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 410246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Heyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Heyd |
| SIGNATURE | HEYD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7577-8317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is there a Future to the study of the Past
Whereas historical scholarship is prospering and is constantly moving into new and uncharted territories, the teaching of history seems to be in a serious crisis in terms of student enrollment and its public prestige. This is true at least in some countries and is especially so with respect to the teaching of eras which precede the twentieth century. The present article seeks to explore some of the reasons for this crisis, and proposes a few argu…
L’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem à travers ses acteurs
Reviewed by: L’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem à travers ses acteurs: La première génération de professeurs (1925–1948) Michael Heyd Keywords Michael Heyd, Eva Telkes-Klein, L’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem à travers ses acteurs: La première génération de professeurs, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professors, Israel Eva Telkes-Klein. L’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem à travers ses acteurs: La première génération de professeurs (1925–1948…
A Feather in the Wind
Sir Keith Thomas, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and former president of Corpus Christi College and The British Academy, discusses his academic background and influences, trends in early modern history, and changes in the history profession. This interview with Prof. Thomas was conducted by the Historical Society of Israel during his visit in late 2003 to deliver the Jerusalem Lectures in History in memory of Menahem Stern
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (review)
Reviewed by: Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe Michael Heyd David B. Ruderman. Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 392 pp. Ill. $30.00. The relationship between science and religion in the early modern period has been a hot topic of debate for two generations now. Discussion has centered mostly on Protestant attitudes toward science, but increase…
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Two
Chapter One
Chapter Six
Chapter Three
Chapter Five
Chapter Seven
Chapter Four
Preliminary Material
Conclusion
Index
Medical Discourse in Religious Controversy
The ArgumentMedicine is only a cultural system of its own. It also performs specific roles in the broader culture of society at large. This article examines the role of medical arguments in the critique of"enthusiasm" on the eve of the Enlightenment. The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly see in the seventeenth century as melancholics. With the decline of humoral medicine, however, the ac…
Be Sober and Reasonable
This book explores the phenomenon of "enthusiasm" - understood as excessive religious zeal or the claim to immediate inspiration - and its critique in 17th- and early 18th-century Europe. Michael Heyd examines how medical and philosophical discourses intersected in characterizing enthusiasm as a form of mental illness, often associated with melancholy. He analyzes the writings of key figures like Meric Casaubon, Henry More, and John Locke, demons…
Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology . James E. Force , Richard H. Popkin
Descartes - An Enthusiast Malgré Lui
This chapter focuses on the image of Descartes in the eyes of his opponents, his image as a Rosicrucian, mystic and enthusiast or fanatic. Such an image is, perhaps, almost as important historically as the real influence which Rosicrucianism (or the so-called hermetic tradition) might have had on the development of Descartes's thought. The charges against Descartes, accusing him of and of affiliations with the Rosicrucians seem to have been preva…
Menasseh Ben Israel as a Meeting Point of Jewish and European History
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
The new experimental philosophy
Atom und Individuum im Zeitalter Newtons
Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment . James R. Jacob
Be Sober and Reasonable
This book explores the phenomenon of "enthusiasm" - understood as excessive religious zeal or the claim to immediate inspiration - and its critique in 17th- and early 18th-century Europe. Michael Heyd examines how medical and philosophical discourses intersected in characterizing enthusiasm as a form of mental illness, often associated with melancholy. He analyzes the writings of key figures like Meric Casaubon, Henry More, and John Locke, demons…
The Reaction to Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth Century
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
The new experimental philosophy
Medical Discourse in Religious Controversy
The ArgumentMedicine is only a cultural system of its own. It also performs specific roles in the broader culture of society at large. This article examines the role of medical arguments in the critique of"enthusiasm" on the eve of the Enlightenment. The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly see in the seventeenth century as melancholics. With the decline of humoral medicine, however, the ac…
Robert Burton's sources on enthusiasm and melancholy
Historians of English literature and culture in the seventeenth century have traced in some detail the Anglican tradition from Burton to Swift which interpreted religious enthusiasm in medical terms, as a manifestation of melancholy.’ No systematic attempt has been made up till now to examine the intellectual sources of this interpretation or to set the English tradition in a broader European context. Whereas the English background to Burton’s fa…
From a Rationalist Theology to Cartesian Voluntarism
From a Rationalist Theology to Cartesian Voluntarism
The Reaction to Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth Century
The Radical Enlightenment
Between Orthodoxy and the Enlightenment
Robert Burton's sources on enthusiasm and melancholy
Historians of English literature and culture in the seventeenth century have traced in some detail the Anglican tradition from Burton to Swift which interpreted religious enthusiasm in medical terms, as a manifestation of melancholy.’ No systematic attempt has been made up till now to examine the intellectual sources of this interpretation or to set the English tradition in a broader European context. Whereas the English background to Burton’s fa…
Atom und Individuum im Zeitalter Newtons
Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment . James R. Jacob
The reaction to enthusiasm in the 17th century
The new experimental philosophy
Menasseh Ben Israel as a Meeting Point of Jewish and European History
The Discourse of Pious Science
The ArgumentThis paper, an attempt at an institutional history of ideas, compares patterns of reproduction of scientific knowledge in Catholic and Protestant educational institutions. Franciscus Eschinardus'Cursus Physico-Mathematicusand Jean-Robert Chouet'sSyntagma Physicumare examined for the strategies which allow for accommodation of new contents and new practices within traditional institutional frameworks. The texts manifest two different s…
Descartes - An Enthusiast Malgré Lui
This chapter focuses on the image of Descartes in the eyes of his opponents, his image as a Rosicrucian, mystic and enthusiast or fanatic. Such an image is, perhaps, almost as important historically as the real influence which Rosicrucianism (or the so-called hermetic tradition) might have had on the development of Descartes's thought. The charges against Descartes, accusing him of and of affiliations with the Rosicrucians seem to have been preva…
Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology . James E. Force , Richard H. Popkin
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Two
Chapter One
Chapter Six
Chapter Three
Chapter Five
Chapter Seven
Chapter Four
Preliminary Material
Conclusion
Index
Philosophy (28 works) · Theology (20 works) · Enthusiasm (17 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works)