Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schaffner, Anna Katharina

Titel

Saturn

Ist Teil von

• Exhaustion, 2016

Ort / Verlag

Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Renaissance scholar Marsilio Ficino believed that the symptoms of exhaustion were caused by planetary movements. Mixing medical, Neo-Platonic and astrological cures, Ficino tried to enlist the help of the celestial bodies to fight exhaustion. Literary and cinematic examples include W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn' and Lars von Trier's film 'Melancholia'.