Title:
The dark side of the Enlightenment : wizards, alchemists, and spiritual seekers in the Age of Reason / John V. Fleming.
ISBN:
9780393079463
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Physical Description:
xv, 414 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: The light and the dark -- Valentine Greatrakes, the stroker -- The convulsionists -- The Rosy Cross -- The Freemasons -- Three occult arts -- Cagliostro ascending -- Cagliostro declining -- Julie de Krüdener, mondaine -- Julie de Krüdener, dévote.
Summary:
"In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment, generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion, were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the darker pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy."--Book jacket.
OCLC Number:
ocn845349380
Availability:
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