Search results for "esoterismi"

Religious and spiritual motifs in the art of the patients of Nikkilä Hospital

2021

This article focuses on religiousness and spirituality in the art works of psychiatric patients of Nikkilä Hospital, Finland. The pictures analysed here belong to a collection held at the Helsinki City Museum and they were made during the twentieth century. The theoretical frame of the study is a cultural study of mental health. The collection is approached as presenting a specific kind of imagery which has connections not only to the personal history and diagnoses of the patients; their cultural context and hospital environment is also taken into account. The religiousness and spirituality of the Nikkilä collection are also compared with outsider art and examples of art history internation…

Re-Enchantment and Contemporary Demonology

2017

Ei vastakulttuurina vaan vaikutteena muiden joukossa

2020

Antroposofisen arkkitehtuurin avaimet

2022

Kirja-arvio: Marja-Leena Ikkala, Etiikka ja esoteria rakennusmuodoissa. Rudolf Steinerin ensimmäinen ja toinen Goetheanum (Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, 2021).

Schelling, esotericism and the meaning of life

2019

F.W.J. Schelling argues in his middle period work Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom that will should be understood as the most fundamental constitutive element of reality. Though it is often downplayed in recent scholarship, Schelling derived his most central ideas for this work more or less directly from the theosophy of Jacob Boehme. I will argue that far from peripheral and antiquated curiosity, Schelling´s esoteric influences constitute the very foundation of his middle period thought. Schelling´s affinity to esotericism enabled him to develop a form of pantheism, which is not tied to the familiar problematic aspects of traditional Christian and post-Christian nar…