ЧУДЕСНОЕ И МОНСТРУОЗНОЕ В ДИСКУРСЕ О ПРИРОДЕ XVII ВЕКА

Вопросы философии. 2026. № 3. С. 48–59.

Очеретяный К. А.

The spheres of the miraculous and monstrous are older than science, and perhaps even older than conceptual language. They belong to the reality of metaphors, or even deep emotions, therefore, in relation to science, their use, at first glance, seems evaluative and superfluous, because they do not refer to specific objects, labels and categories, but to what precedes any codification and cataloging phenomena, namely - moods. Nevertheless, the community of scientists, at the turn of the early Modern period developing as a group with distinctive behavior, habits and attitudes, cannot be adequately assessed outside the symbolic context, including in relation to the coordinates of the miraculous and monstrous, such value categories as hopes and fears. An example of this is the treatise “On Lycanthropy, Transformation and Ecstasy of Witches” published by Jean de Nynauld in Paris in 1615, in which the werewolf becomes a basis for a number of fundamental appeals and tasks: a new approach to the amazing, to the imaginary, to the terrifying. To understand the meaning and significance of the questions posed in the treatise, the article carries out an analysis of specific embodiments of sensitivity to the miraculous and monstrous: from paradoxographs to the organization of storefronts, from the art of automatons to symbolic construction according to speculative rules. It is shown how a community of scientists gets access to social attitudes and imagination, how their practices begin to define and forminterest in the society, how the amazing is monopolized by science.

Keywords: медиа, история науки, media, воображение, representations, miracle, MONSTER, METAPHOR, МОНСТР, МЕТАФОРА

Publication based on the results of: Nature in the optics of digital culture: paradoxes, hybrids, phantasms (2024)