Biography
Dr. Susanne Beiweis received her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2016. Prior to joining Mount Allison, she worked as a Research Associate at Sun Yat-Sen University (China). Her research interests lie in the history of philosophy and the history of ideas, with a special focus on Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy. She is interested in the relations between learned magic, the arts, and natural philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work examines how the tradition of learned magic in the Renaissance contributed to the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century. Her teaching interests include the history of philosophy in general and aesthetics and philosophy of art.
Publications
Edited Volumes
2022. Shani, I. & Beiweis, S., Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality. London: Bloomsbury Academics.
Refereed Journal Articles
in press. Beiweis, S. & Ockenstr枚m, L., Aged Scholars, Screech-Owls, Sagae and (the Power of) Human Blood in Ficino鈥檚 De Vita Longa, Rinascimento.
2021. Fear of the Other: The Ottoman Turk in Machiavelli鈥檚 La Mandragola, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 49.1: 20-41.
2019. Beiweis, S. & Ockenstr枚m, L., Memory, Mercury, and Magic in Marsilio Ficino鈥檚 De Vita, Rinascimento, LIX: 271-296.
2018. 鈥楴aturam ars imitatur鈥: Magical images within Marsilio Ficino鈥檚 De Vita Libri Tres, Verbum 鈥 Analecta Neolatina, 1-2: 155-180.
2013. Der Talisman: Das Brechen bestehender Analogie. Zur Rezeption der Magie bei Marsilio Ficino, 贵谤眉丑苍别耻锄别颈迟-滨苍蹿辞, 24: 43-50.
Book Chapters
2022. Beiweis, S. & Shani, I., Introduction: Can Consciousness Be Reconceived as Metaphysically Fundamental?, in Shani, I. and Beiweis, S. (eds.), Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality, London: Bloomsbury Academics.
2017. Allmacht, Ohnmacht und Magie. Saturn als Kippbild bei Marsilio Ficino, in: Eming, J. and Dallapiazza, M. (eds.), Marsilio Ficino in Deutschland und Italien. Renaissance-Magie zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 55-67.
2014. Die Sph盲re Saturns als Medium f眉r den Dichter und Philosophen. Dantes XXI. Gesang des Paradisos und Ficino鈥檚 De vita sana, in: Mehltretter, F. (ed.), Allegorie und Wissensandordnung. M眉nchen: utzverlag, pp. 61-96.
Web-Based Publications
2014. Gesundheit durch Magie. Marsilio Ficinos示 De vita libri tres 鈥 1000 Wort Forschung, .
2013. Als Magie noch Teil der Wissenschaft war, .
2012. Meine Forschung: Sternend盲monen und Talismane,鈥 .
Education
PhD Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria, 2016
Dissertation: Saturn and Talisman: The Heterogeneous Concepts of Magic as presented in Marsilio Ficino鈥檚 De Vita Libri Tres (written in German)
Mag. phil. Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria, 2009
Teaching
Fall 2023
PHIL 1621 Reason, Will, & World
PHIL 3101 Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 3991a Renaissance Philosophy
Winter 2023/24
PHIL 2401 Introductory Aesthetics
PHIL 2611 Introductory Logic