Critique of the Teutonic Philosophy and Other Writings Against Jacob Bohme: Text, Translation and Introduction [Paperback]

The first volume of the series assembles Mores writings against the Christian mystic Jacob B?hme. More engaged critically with B?hmes daring, yet exceptionally dark and elusive, writings for four decades. His principal work on the influential German author is his epistolary treatise Critique of the Teutonic Philosophy addressed to his heroine pupil Anne Conway. Not only does it provide a critical, albeit surprisingly sympathetic, account of the German mystics riveting vision of the cosmic drama of divine being and becoming, but Mores answers to the addressees five quaestiones or queries amount to a sustained Neoplatonist interpretation of B?hmes theosophical cosmology as well. Alongside a first bilingual edition of the Critique of the Teutonic Philosophy, this volume contains all the B?hme-related chapters in Mores earlier poetry and prose. A substantial introduction places Mores important late work in the context of the contemporary English Behmenists editorial project of a complete translation of the Teutonic Philosophers Writings. This first volume of the Latin Works of Henry More makes accessible a particularly seminal work of the Cambridge Platonist which exerted massive influence upon G.W. Leibniz and the later Idealist and Romantic B?hme enthusiasts in Germany and beyond.