Both a simple cobbler and an important German philosopher, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) remains today one of the giants of Western thought. His originality springs from, among other things, his actual experience of knowledge and his approach to reality, from which he established a system and the idea of the cosmos’s ‘auto-manifestation’. This makes his work, in the eyes of Basarab Nicolescu, extraordinarily modern, creating a profound link between the western tradition and current science.
What is his “anxious breaking wheel”? Is a cosmology of “auto-manifestation” necessarily a tragic one? Can the imaginary be regarded as the source of reality? Answering these questions leads us to an understanding of this thinker and his development.
a simple cobbler and an important German philosopher, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) remains today one of the giants of Western thought. His originality springs from, among other things, his actual experience of knowledge and his approach to reality, from which he established a system and the idea of the cosmos’s ‘auto-manifestation’. This makes his work, in the eyes of Basarab Nicolescu, extraordinarily modern, creating a profound link between the western tradition and current science.
