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BUKSZ – Budapesti Könyvszemle 27 B U D A P E S T I K Ö N Y V S Z E M L E KRITIKAI ÍRÁSOK A TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYOK KÖRÉBŐL BÍRÁLAT BOBORY DÓRA GIROLAMO CARDANÓRÓL TAKÁCS ÁDÁM K. HORVÁTH ZSOLTRÓL SZABARI VERA – MARGÓCSY DÁNIEL KÖNYVÉRŐL KISS FARKAS GÁBOR LÁZS SÁNDOR KÖNYVÉRŐL MÁRTON MIKLÓS ÉS TŐZSÉR JÁNOS – AMBRUS GERGELY KÖNYVÉRŐL VARGA PÉTER ANDRÁS: HOGYAN ÍRJUNK (MAGYAR) FILOZÓFIATÖRTÉNETET? SOÓS KÁROLY ATTILA – BALEKVADÁSZAT PROBLÉMA SÁNDOR KLÁRA – ÚJ HULLÁM A NYELVÉSZETBEN SZÉKELY IVÁN – SZÁMÍT, HOL HALSZ MEG? SZEMLE ATTILA, A SZÉKELY ÍRÁS, A CSÍKSOMLYÓI MÁRIA, A RÓZSA ZSIDÓ ÉS ROMA HOLOKAUSZT, INTERNÁLTAK, HALÁL ÉS TÖRTÉNELEM HABERMAS A BREXITRŐL MI A PÁLYA? BUCKMINSTER FULLER HAGYATÉKA MEGJELENIK 2016. TAVASZ–NYÁR NEGYEDÉVENTE B U D A P E S T I K Ö N Y V S Z E M L E Főszerkesztő: Wessely Anna Harsányi Tamás (tördelőszerkesztő), Sebes Katalin (szöveggondozó) A szerkesztőbizottság elnöke: Laki Mihály Szerkesztőbizottság: Bodnár M. István, Erős Ferenc, Gecser Ottó, Gyáni Gábor, Kálmán C. György, Klaniczay Gábor, Lakner Judit, Madarász Aladár, Majtényi László, Pajkossy Gábor, Szécsényi Endre 28. évfolyam 1. szám 2016. tavasz–nyár BÍRÁLAT Bobory Dóra: Girolamo Cardano: Életem 3 Egy élet torztükre Szabari Vera: Dániel Margócsy: Commercial Visions 8 Kuriózumok és gyűjtők Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age Kiss Farkas Gábor: Lázs Sándor: Apácaműveltség Magyarországon 13 Használati irodalom a XV–XVI. század fordulóján Az anyanyelvű irodalom kezdetei Takács Ádám: K. Horváth Zsolt: Az emlékezet betegei 18 Az idő történeti A tér-idő társadalomtörténeti morfológiájához finomhangolása Varga Péter András: Mészáros András: Széttartó párhuzamok 23 Hogyan írjunk (magyar) Esettanulmányok a magyar filozófia történetéből filozófiatörténetet? Márton Miklós – Tőzsér János: Ambrus Gergely: Tudományos elmefilozófia 29 Eltűnő szubjektivitás PROBLÉMA Soós Károly Attila Balekvadászat 37 Sándor Klára Új hullám a nyelvészetben 44 Székely Iván Számít, hol halsz meg? 53 A post-mortem privacy védelmének esélye Európában és az USA-ban SZEMLE Sághy Marianne Bozóky Edina: Attila 56 A hun király és legendái Kis-Halas Judit Sándor Klára: A székely írás nyomában 58 Sarkadi Nagy Emese Mohay Tamás: „Istennek kincses tárháza...” 62 P. Losteiner Leonárd ferences kézirata Szűz Mária csíksomlyói kegyszobráról SZEMLE Kocziszky Éva Géczi János: A rózsa jegye alatt 65 Goethe, Vörösmarty, Kazinczy, Babits, Saint-Exupéry, Tolnai Ottó Géczi János: A rózsa és jelképei Fejezetek a 17–18. századból Géczi János: Kívül Németh Krisztina Saád József szerk.: Hortobágy örökségei 68 Kényszermunkatáborok és lakóik nyomában Gulyás Éva A holokauszt Békés megyei történeteiből 71 A Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár 2014. június 12-i, gyulai konferenciáján elhangzott előadások Szerk. Erdész Ádám, Kovács Tamás Hajnáczky Tamás Harmat József: Roma holokauszt a Grábler-tónál 73 Székesfehérvári és várpalotai cigányok tömeges kivégzése Várpalotán 1945-ben Prax Levente Gelencsér Gábor: Forgatott könyvek 75 A magyar film és az irodalom kapcsolata 1945 és 1995 között Komáromy Zsolt Andrea Timár: A Modern Coleridge 76 Cultivation, Addiction, Habits Lengyel Zsuzsanna Mariann Király V. István: Death and History 79 MI A PÁLYA? Thomas Assheuer A játékosok lelépnek – Interjú Jürgen Habermasszal 84 W. Patrick McCray Igésített élet – Buckminster Fuller a XXI. században 88 A BUKSZ – Budapesti Könyvszemle 27. évfolyamának (2015) összesített tartalomjegyzéke (összeáll. Pajkossy Gábor) BUKSZ szer kesz tő sé ge A gra fi kai-ti pog rá fi ai ar cu la tot Po hár nok Mi hály E-mail <[email protected]> A BUKSZ há ló za ton a és Har sá nyi Ta más ter vez te. Szed te a BUKSZ- Ki ad ja a Bu da pes ti Könyv szem le Ala pít vány. http://buksz.c3.hu Stú dió. Nyom ta a mondAt Kft., Vác. Felelős cí men ér he tô el. vezető: Nagy László Elő fi ze té si díj évi 4000 Ft. Befizethető a Bu da pes ti Könyv szem le Ala pít vány KHB szám lá já ra. Számlaszám: 10402166-21634716 K & H Bank A ko ráb bi szá ma ink megrendelhetők a www.konyveslap.hu oldalon. ISSN 0865-4247 EGY ÉLET TORZTÜKRE BOBORY DÓRA Girolamo Cardano: Életem dekességek, a Bevezetés a kísértettanba, A kapzsi hóhérné Fordította és a bevezetőt írta Magyar László András című műveket, de publikált gyerekverseket és önélet- rajzi szösszeneteket is. Jól ráérzett, hogy van egy rés, Gondolat, Budapest, 2013. ha mégoly keskenyke is, a magyar könyvpiacon, amely 280 oldal, 2950 Ft a kora újkori latin szövegek magyar fordításaival tölt- hető ki. A hangzatos címek már árulkodnak arról, mi a közös a Magyar által írt, fordított és szerkesztett mikor úgy tizenöt évvel ezelőtt először olvas- könyvekben: a szórakoztatás igénye. Ennek alá is ren- tam Gerolamo Cardano önéletrajzát, olyan del minden mást: a történetiséget, a forráshűséget és Aérzéseim támadtak, amilyenek kora újkori ezáltal a hitelességet is. Ez különösen szembeszökő a szövegek olvasásakor viszonylag ritkán szoktak meg- fordításaiban, melyek közül most a legutolsót emelem találni: döbbenet, feszengés, szánalom, hitetlenke- ki, Cardano 1576-ban befejezett önéletrajzát. dés. Még az archaikus olasz fordítás is, amelyben Cardano valóban kiváló példája a különösnek, a először kezembe került, visszaadta a szerző kendőzet- kívülállónak, életrajza pedig meghökkentő, szinte fel- len, nyers stílusát: nem kímélte se magát, se másokat. kavaró olvasmány, különösen kontextusából teljesen Mintha fittyet hányt volna a világra, a szakmai hírne- kiragadva, használható bevezető, kommentár és jegy- vére és az utókor véleményére, lecsupaszított testtel és zetek nélkül. Magyar írt ugyan egy pár oldalas előszót lélekkel állt az olvasók elé. Ám kezdettől motoszkált a latinból fordított szöveg elé, de ebben csak Cardano bennem a gyanú, hogy van rendszer ebben a káosz- élettörténetének bulváros mozzanatait emeli ki: van ban, hogy a meghökkentő történetek, sorsfordulatok, benne bigott, de magát prostitúcióból fenntartó testi elváltozások leírásában Cardanót nem csupán az anya, feleséggyilkosságért lefejezett fiú, meddő leány, igazság szeretete vezérelte, hanem volt más, kevésbé kóros játékszenvedély, nyomor és inkvizíció, a képből egyértelmű célja is. Többéves kutatómunkával, két pedig cinkosan kacsint ki egy kárörvendő vénember. szakdolgozattal és három cikkel később is úgy érez- Záró mondatával Magyar a történész szakmát is hely- tem, csak részben fejtettem meg a titkát, és ezzel nem re teszi: „Cardano életéről és sorsáról ebben az elő- voltam egyedül. Cardano különleges világa többeket szóban nem írok hosszabban, hiszen az alábbi önélet- beszippantott már: Anthony Grafton az asztrológiai rajz úgyis erről az életről és sorsról szól. A korról és a művekre,1 Nancy Siraisi inkább az orvosiakra össz- társadalmi-kulturális környezetről pedig a következő pontosított,2 de az önéletrajz minden valamirevaló oldalakon százszor többet tudhat meg majd a tisztelt tanulmányban fontos szerepet kap mint az itáliai po- Olvasó, mint akármilyen alapos, tudós és ennek meg- lihisztor munkásságának mátrixa. felelően unalmas bevezető tanulmányból.” Magyar László András mindig is kereste a szen- Mint olyasvalaki, aki több unalmas tanulmányt is zációs, a fringe (vagyis a peremvidéken elhelyezkedő) szentelt Gerolamo Cardanónak,3 magamra veszem témákat, alakokat, publikált fordításokat és esszéket az inget és egyben a feladatot is, hogy összeszedjem, a székelési szokások, a prostitúció, a démonológia és miért nem szerencsés régi szövegeket ilyen formában a mágia történetének témakörében. Korábbi könyvei- megjelentetni. Kezdjük talán azzal, hogy mi értelme nek sorában ott találjuk A csámcsogó hullák és egyéb ér- van tudni egyet s mást arról a szerzőről, akinek ön- életrajzát lefordítjuk, mi minden derülhetne ki egy jól 1 n Anthony Grafton: Cardano’s Cosmos. The World and megírt bevezetőből, és hogy valóban unalmasabb-e a Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1999. fordítás a ferdítésnél. 2 n Nancy G. Siraisi: The Clock and the Mirror. Girolamo Cardano kora, a XVI. század második fele, a hu- Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. Princeton University manizmus válságát hozta el. A nagy felfedezések kel- Press, Princeton, 1997. 3 n Bobory Dóra: Being a Chosen One: Self-Consciousness tette lelkesedés alábbhagyott, már alig-alig került elő and Self-Fashioning in the Works of Gerolamo Cardano. Annual újabb, addig csak hírből ismert ókori kézirat, a Ficino of Medieval Studies at CEU, 9 (2003), 69–92. old.; uő: An és a firenzei neoplatonikusok körében akkora izgal- Unusual Biography: Cardano’s Horoscope for Petrarch. In: K. A. E. Enenkel – J. Papy (eds.): Petrarch and his readers in the mat keltő hermetikus szövegek is a hagyomány meg- Renaissance. (Intersections 6) Brill, Leiden, 2006. 209–229. old. szokott részévé váltak. A humanistáknak ez a harma- 4 n Robert Mandrou: From Humanism to Science 1480– dik generációja, az „új értelmiségiek”, ahogy Robert 1700. Penguin, 1978. 122. old. Mandrou nevezte őket,4 nem tudtak vagy nem akar- 4 BUKSZ 2016 tak udvaroncok lenni, egyetemi katedrát szerezni, az önnön kivételességükről tett merész állítások könnyen udvar védelmező, biztonságot adó közege vagy intéz- bajba sodorhatták a magányos tudóst; az eretnekség ményi háttér nélkül pedig erőteljes túlélési stratégiára vádja nem volt ismeretlen sem Paracelsus, sem olyan volt szükségük. A könyvnyomtatás elterjedése élénk kortársai előtt, mint Agrippa von Nettesheim, aki piaci versenyhez vezetett, igyekeztek a maguk módján okkult filozófiájával vált ismertté, Giambattista del- és eszközeivel boldogulni, a hasonló kortársak közül la Porta, aki a természetes mágiát hirdette, sőt még kiemelkedni,
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