Vortrag von Prof. Kevin Killeen (University of York)

Organisiert von Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Cecilia Muratori (Università di Pavia) und Dr. Antje Wittstock (FU Berlin) im Rahmen des Forschungscolloquiums von Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte und Prof. Dr. Sebastian Tränkle (FU Berlin)

This talk will focus on three pieces of scientific poetry, and the way in which early modern gush – that quintessential way of speaking amongst radicals and enthusiasts – had its epistemological cousin, a way of thinking about multiple sciences, kaleidoscopically imagined. It will focus on works by two largely unknown poets, Anne Southwell (c. 1620) and Mary Chudleigh (1703), and the ways in which they incorporate natural philosophy into their poems, pivoting between these with attention to Samuel Pordage (1661) whose quasi-epic poem produced a surging, angelic, mystico-philosophical version of Jacob Boehme's alles-in-allem poetics of the universe.

 

Zeit & Ort

19.11.2025 | 18:00–20:00 c.t.

Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie
Raum SIR 2
Habelschwerdter Allee 30
14195 Berlin