03571nam 2200661Ia 450 991077965920332120230124183930.01-299-48346-10-300-19539-710.12987/9780300195392(CKB)2550000001020444(OCoLC)847002208(CaPaEBR)ebrary10689563(SSID)ssj0000872232(PQKBManifestationID)12357807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872232(PQKBWorkID)10829442(PQKB)10845720(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157965(MiAaPQ)EBC3421202(DE-B1597)486188(OCoLC)841216180(DE-B1597)9780300195392(EXLCZ)99255000000102044420121219d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSolomon's secret arts[electronic resource] the occult in the age of enlightenment /Paul Kleber MonodNew Haven Yale University Pressc20131 online resource (457 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12358-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction: What Was the Occult? --Chapter One: The Alchemical Heyday --Chapter Two: The Silver Age of the Astrologers --Chapter Three: The Occult Contested --Chapter Four: A Fading Flame --Chapter Five: The Newtonian Magi --Chapter Six: The Occult on the Margins --Chapter Seven: The Occult Revival --Chapter Eight: An Occult Enlightenment? --Chapter Nine: Prophets and Revolutions --Conclusion --Manuscript Sources --Notes --IndexThe late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of "reason" but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today.AlchemyEnlightenmentMagicOccult sciencesScienceHistoryMiscellaneaAlchemy.Enlightenment.Magic.Occult sciences.ScienceHistoryMiscellanea.130.9HIS037040PHI016000HIS015000OCC016000bisacshMonod Paul Kleber1031441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779659203321Solomon's secret arts3698498UNINA