Wednesday, September 06, 2006

sALAMANDRIDAE*

My first class tomorrow as a PhD student is on the philosophy of Salamanca; I hope there's no swimming involved, (Salamandridae family).

The University of Salamanca, one of the oldest universities in the world (founded 1218), was a prominent Dominican bastion in the late Scholastic period. It was one of the homes of Thomistic theology, even after the doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas were disintegrating elsewhere in Europe first under the Scotist and Nominalist onslaughts, and then from the Reformation.

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"Poetry is the short-circuiting of meaning between words, the impetuous regeneration of primordial myth". Bruno Schulz