Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science & Sacred Art. Translated and Edited by William Stoddart

BURCKHARDT, Titus

ISBN 10: 094662108X / ISBN 13: 9780946621088

Published by Quinta Essentia, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science & Sacred Art. Translated and Edited by William Stoddart
• Publisher: Quinta Essentia
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 094662108X
• ISBN 13: 9780946621088
• Binding: Binding sound, text unmarked
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Owner's signature
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy & Science

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Synopsis

A virtually complete collection of Burckhardt's essays, originally published throughout his long life in a variety of German and French journals. Their range is tremendous--from sacred cosmology and modern science through Christianity and Islam to symbolism and mythology. The chief virtue of the collection is precisely its comprehensiveness; both quantitatively and qualitatively it is extremely rich.

About the Author

Titus Burckhardt, son of Swiss sculptor Carl Burckhardt and great nephew of famous art historian Jacob Burckhardt, was born in Florence in 1908. His youth was devoted to studies in art, art history, and oriental languages, and to journeys through North Africa and the Near East. In 1942, he became director of the Graf-Verlag publishing house, which specialized in facsimile editions of ancient manuscripts. He presided over the interesting series Statten des Geistes (Homesteads of the Spirit) covering Mount Sinai, Celtic Ireland, and Constantinople. To this he contributed two of his own works, Siena: City of the Virgin and Chartres and the Genesis of the Gothic Cathedral.

In 1972 he was appointed to UNESCO for the preservation of the ancient city of Fez, and at the same time, immersed himself in the Arabic language and assimilated the classics of Sufism in their original form. He later shared these treasures through his translations of Ibn Arabi's Letters of a Sufi Master and other works. He died in 1984.