When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment

As disenchantment began to be recognized as a recurring, never-ending process in recent scholarship, "When Jupiter Meets Saturn" argues that Aby Warburg and Karl Sudhoff's debate on Reformation astrological medicine provided a new theory of the emergence of modern science and rational...

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Published inJournal of the history of ideas Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 321 - 355
Main Author Wen, Xinyi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Pennsylvania Press 01.04.2024
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Astrology - history
Germany
History, 20th Century
Germany
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Summary:As disenchantment began to be recognized as a recurring, never-ending process in recent scholarship, "When Jupiter Meets Saturn" argues that Aby Warburg and Karl Sudhoff's debate on Reformation astrological medicine provided a new theory of the emergence of modern science and rationality. Drawing on their encounter and divergence in interwar Germany, especially their curatorial collaboration for the 1911 Internationale Hygiene-Ausstellung, the article shows that Warburg and Sudhoff generated completely opposite historical evaluations of astrological medicine using the very same materials. Approaching history as healers, they developed different ways of seeing from medical epistemologies and brought out entangled temporalities from images.
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This is an unedited draft of the article that has been accepted for publication by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Please refer to the forthcoming publication for citation details.
ISSN:0022-5037
1086-3222
1086-3222
DOI:10.1353/jhi.2024.a926151