The book series Theatrum Scientiarum presents original contributions at the interface of philosophy, history of the humanities, cultural and theater studies. This 5th volume focuses on the anatomical theater representing a model which became formative for the production of knowledge and also for the practices of the arts, law, politics and culture. The avant-garde movements of the 20th century with their strategies of fragmentation and the systematic cut are a pithy, programmatic counterpole of the Early Modern Age.