I will give an example of what I mean.
Here is an oft quoted, well worn passage taken from Brown's Religio Medici:
"..there is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master
Mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a mercifull aspect,
and will single out a face, wherein they spy the
signatures and markes of mercy: for there are mystically in our faces
certaine characters which carry in them the motto of our Soules,
wherein he that cannot read A.B.C. may read our natures. I hold
moreover that there is a Phytognomy, or Physiognomy, not onely of men,
but of Plants, and Vegetables; and in every one of them, some outward
figures which hang as signes or bushes of their inward formes. The
finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his workes, not
graphicall or composed of Letters, but of their severall formes,
constitutions, parts, and operations, which aptly joyned together doe
make one word that doth expresse their natures. By these Letters God
cals the Starres by their names, and by this Alphabet Adam assigned to every creature a name peculiar to its Nature."
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They didn't publish the bibliography and he probably kept it from
publication but its highly probably he may have read it or a text very much
like it.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Let me also suggest to your view a primary text which will furnish anyone
> interested in fleshing out the Order of Things in its Historical Being, and
> that is Thomas Brown's Religio Medici.
>
> I have often complained to myself on many occasions at the lack of the
> engagement, by the participants in this discussion group, in primary
> material, the sort of material which furnished Foucaults Ouvour with its
> substance, and promised to myself to supply some of that lack when the
> opportunity next presented itself. Well, I have often had the experience,
> while reading the Order of Things, that Thomas Brown's Religio Medici is one
> of those texts that lays silently behind it, stands in the background as it
> were, and informs it obliquely. In other words, I was surprised not to find
> any reference to Religio Medici in the Order of Things (despite the fact
> that my copy of Order of Things is missing the Index), when it seemed to
> epitomise much of what it talks about (i.e., deploys in its positivities),
> and the fact that it was such a well known little book (throughout the
> period that Foucaults book staked out as its field of interest) which found
> as many
> readers in Catholic countries as it did in Protestant ones.
>
> Regarded 'astride a low wall'
>
>
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Here is an oft quoted, well worn passage taken from Brown's Religio Medici:
"..there is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master
Mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a mercifull aspect,
and will single out a face, wherein they spy the
signatures and markes of mercy: for there are mystically in our faces
certaine characters which carry in them the motto of our Soules,
wherein he that cannot read A.B.C. may read our natures. I hold
moreover that there is a Phytognomy, or Physiognomy, not onely of men,
but of Plants, and Vegetables; and in every one of them, some outward
figures which hang as signes or bushes of their inward formes. The
finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his workes, not
graphicall or composed of Letters, but of their severall formes,
constitutions, parts, and operations, which aptly joyned together doe
make one word that doth expresse their natures. By these Letters God
cals the Starres by their names, and by this Alphabet Adam assigned to every creature a name peculiar to its Nature."
--- On Fri, 6/3/09, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Critique of a short passage by Dreyfus & Rabinow regarding the Order of Things
To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Received: Friday, 6 March, 2009, 6:59 PM
They didn't publish the bibliography and he probably kept it from
publication but its highly probably he may have read it or a text very much
like it.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Let me also suggest to your view a primary text which will furnish anyone
> interested in fleshing out the Order of Things in its Historical Being, and
> that is Thomas Brown's Religio Medici.
>
> I have often complained to myself on many occasions at the lack of the
> engagement, by the participants in this discussion group, in primary
> material, the sort of material which furnished Foucaults Ouvour with its
> substance, and promised to myself to supply some of that lack when the
> opportunity next presented itself. Well, I have often had the experience,
> while reading the Order of Things, that Thomas Brown's Religio Medici is one
> of those texts that lays silently behind it, stands in the background as it
> were, and informs it obliquely. In other words, I was surprised not to find
> any reference to Religio Medici in the Order of Things (despite the fact
> that my copy of Order of Things is missing the Index), when it seemed to
> epitomise much of what it talks about (i.e., deploys in its positivities),
> and the fact that it was such a well known little book (throughout the
> period that Foucaults book staked out as its field of interest) which found
> as many
> readers in Catholic countries as it did in Protestant ones.
>
> Regarded 'astride a low wall'
>
>
> Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox.
> Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(319)-512-9318
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world"
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