Michael H Keefer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5920943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael H Keefer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Keefer |
| SIGNATURE | KEEFER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Sainte-Anne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
Goldberg, Edward. Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2014, pp. 5-198), on Érudit
" Inter inextricabiles… difficultatum tenebras "
After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks to separate itself is gendered female. Some of the implications of this argument are explored through a reading of Marvell's poem "The Garden," which is …
Essays on Renaissance Literature. Volume One
Easy grace," William Empson wrote of one of John Donne's love poems, "takes a lot of struggle. . ."(p. 173).He might have added, "So also does attentive critical reading."Struggle, in the first instance, with other critics whose refusal to contextualize their readings beyond quite narrow limits permits a reimposition of orthodox pieties upon canonical texts that demand a much fuller range of responses; and struggle, as well, with textual critics …
The Dreamer's Path
[Descartes] ne croioit pas qu'on dût s'étonner si fort de voir que les Poëtes, même ceux qui ne font que niaiser, fussent pleins de sentences plus graves, plus sensées, & mieux exprimées que celles qui se trouvent dans les écrits des Philosophes. Il attribuoit cette merveille à la divinité de l'Enthousiasme, & à la force de l'lmagination.— Adrien Baillet, Vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes (1691), paraphrasing Descartes's Olympica manuscript of 1619-20Me…
Agrippa's Dilemma
When in 1625 Gabriel Naudé wished to clear the name of Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) from the pious slanders of the demonologists of the intervening century, he argued that this learned man, “who was not only a new Trismegistus in the three higher faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine, but who desired to travel in body through every part of Europe, and to exercise his mind on all sciences and disciplines,” deserved better than to be abused wit…
The World Turned Inside Out
In a text of the twelfth century attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus, the Liber XXIV philosophorum, one of the twenty-four different answers offered to the question Quid est Deus? is the following: "Deus est sphaera infinita, cuius centrum est ubique, circumferentia nus- quam" ("God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere, and whose circumference nowhere")
The Dreamer's Path
[Descartes] ne croioit pas qu'on dût s'étonner si fort de voir que les Poëtes, même ceux qui ne font que niaiser, fussent pleins de sentences plus graves, plus sensées, & mieux exprimées que celles qui se trouvent dans les écrits des Philosophes. Il attribuoit cette merveille à la divinité de l'Enthousiasme, & à la force de l'lmagination.— Adrien Baillet, Vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes (1691), paraphrasing Descartes's Olympica manuscript of 1619-20Me…
Agrippa's Dilemma
When in 1625 Gabriel Naudé wished to clear the name of Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) from the pious slanders of the demonologists of the intervening century, he argued that this learned man, “who was not only a new Trismegistus in the three higher faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine, but who desired to travel in body through every part of Europe, and to exercise his mind on all sciences and disciplines,” deserved better than to be abused wit…
The World Turned Inside Out
In a text of the twelfth century attributed to the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus, the Liber XXIV philosophorum, one of the twenty-four different answers offered to the question Quid est Deus? is the following: "Deus est sphaera infinita, cuius centrum est ubique, circumferentia nus- quam" ("God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere, and whose circumference nowhere")
Agrippa's Dilemma
When in 1625 Gabriel Naudé wished to clear the name of Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) from the pious slanders of the demonologists of the intervening century, he argued that this learned man, “who was not only a new Trismegistus in the three higher faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine, but who desired to travel in body through every part of Europe, and to exercise his mind on all sciences and disciplines,” deserved better than to be abused wit…
The Dreamer's Path
[Descartes] ne croioit pas qu'on dût s'étonner si fort de voir que les Poëtes, même ceux qui ne font que niaiser, fussent pleins de sentences plus graves, plus sensées, & mieux exprimées que celles qui se trouvent dans les écrits des Philosophes. Il attribuoit cette merveille à la divinité de l'Enthousiasme, & à la force de l'lmagination.— Adrien Baillet, Vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes (1691), paraphrasing Descartes's Olympica manuscript of 1619-20Me…
Essays on Renaissance Literature. Volume One
Easy grace," William Empson wrote of one of John Donne's love poems, "takes a lot of struggle. . ."(p. 173).He might have added, "So also does attentive critical reading."Struggle, in the first instance, with other critics whose refusal to contextualize their readings beyond quite narrow limits permits a reimposition of orthodox pieties upon canonical texts that demand a much fuller range of responses; and struggle, as well, with textual critics …
" Inter inextricabiles… difficultatum tenebras "
After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks to separate itself is gendered female. Some of the implications of this argument are explored through a reading of Marvell's poem "The Garden," which is …
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
Goldberg, Edward. Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2014, pp. 5-198), on Érudit
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