I can truly be proud of my academic journey that has resulted in this thesis. May it be of benefit to those who are willing to explore it. (Typos and erroneous errors aside). I extend my utmost gratitude to Elena Pnevmonidou, Matthew Pollard, & Catherine Harding for their encouragement and support throughout the years of this project’s making. May the bright light you showed me, and all your students always shine back in you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is the link : https:\/\/dspace.library.uvic.ca\/handle\/1828\/11763 Courtesy of University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As always please enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This Master\u2019s thesis shall attempt to reconcile the notion of the spiritual with that of the aesthetic by focusing on the influence of 16th century German mystic Jakob B\u00f6hme, with the 19th century cultural movement of German Romanticism. B\u00f6hme\u2019s mysticism outlined a spiritual paradigm that fused alchemy with Christianity wherein the properties of nature are inherently led by a spiritual desire towards unity with God. It is through the process of spiritual desire that unity unveils itself. Consequently, B\u00f6hme\u2019s mysticism influenced later generations of spiritual thought, including German Romanticism. Within Romanticism, Friedrich von Hardenberg, know by his pen name Novalis, developed a philosophy and aesthetic theory that expanded away from the philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment. This new philosophy focused on the subjective experience and how revelation of the self was to be experienced through creative introspection, as a consequence of encountering and interacting with the other. Novalis\u2018 philosophy incorpterated religious motifs and spirituality to assert that it was through creative striving that spiritual revelation was to be achieved from within oneself. Caspar David Friedrich was a Romantic landscape painter whose work focused on the notion of humanity in the face of nature. Friedrich often painted landscapes as an allegory for Christian values and religious inquiry that becomes an existential introspection through nature. Through comparative analysis I shall demonstrate how the ideas and works of Novalis and Caspar David Friedrich correlate with the spiritual mysticism of B\u00f6hme that represent the greater discourse that is spirituality itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,5,7,9],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-german-romanticism","tag-mikhail-busch","tag-spirituality","tag-thesis","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikhailbusch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}