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quos . praeside R. P. Leonardo Grebner . publicae disputationi exponet . Wilhelmus Antonius Wolffgangus Graffto nobil. D. de & in Mayenberg ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Diss. 987#Beibd.1

quos . praeside R. P. Leonardo Grebner . publicae disputationi exponet . Wilhelmus Antonius Wolffgangus Graffto nobil. D. de & in Mayenberg ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Diss. 267#Beibd.1

Claudius Ptolemy (d. ca 170 CE) was a Graeco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer who lived and worked in Alexandria. His Tetrabiblos ('Four Books', Lat. Quadripartitum ), in which he sets out the principles and practice of astrology, became a highly influential work that was also taught at the cream of European universities, well into Renaissance times. In the Islamic world, there existed an Arabic summary of this work, entitled Kitāb al-thamara ('Harvest', Lat. Liber Fructus ), erroneously ascribed to Ptolemy himself. Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) was an influential philosopher, theologian, mathematician and astronomer, besides being the first director of the famous observatory at Marāghah near Tabriz. Author of more than 50 scholarly works, the present volume contains his Persian commentary on the Kitāb al-thamara in which he also made use of two earlier commentaries in Arabic, one by Aḥmad born Yūsuf al-Miṣrī (4th/10th century) and the other by Abu 'l-ʿAbbās al-Iṣfahānī (4th/10th century)

"This treatise on religious studies traces the European tradition of astrology from its oriental beginnings to the present day. The aim is to get a view of the different mythological, philosophical and theological ideas of the cosmos (especially with Platonic and Aristotelian borrowings), which astrology has repeatedly reformulated and carried through all epochs. However, it seems as if astrology had lost its plausibility with the overcoming of the geocentric world view by Copernicus and Kepler and could only continue to exist as an "intellectual regression" (Theodor Adorno). This view is countered by the thesis, founded here, that astrology has been able to survive the changes in world views unscathed because it designs philosophical (holistic) patterns of reasoning into the relationship between cosmos and humans, which in a Platonic sense understand the cosmos as an intelligent and vital organism"--

Immer wieder hört man darüber klagen, daß entwicklungspolitische Seminare mangels Teilnehmer/innen ausfallen, und daß diese sich stattdessen zunehmend "unpolitischen" Themen wie "Bioenergetik", "Astrologie" oder "Makrobiotik" zuwenden und dafür auch noch horrende Teilnahmebeiträge auf den Tisch blättern. Ist das der Verfall der politischen (Gegen)Kultur? (DIPF/Orig.)

In zwei seiner soziologischen Abhandlungen hatte P. Bourdieu mit lapidar formulierter Kritik an Adorno verwiesen, dem er vorgeworfen hatte, auf allzu einfache soziologische Denkstrukturen zu rekurrieren. Für seine Replik auf Bourdieus Kritik wählt der Autor Adornos Ausführungen zur populären Kultur aus den Abhandlungen über die populäre Astrologie aus.(PT)