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Solomon's secret arts : the occult in the age of enlightenment / / Paul Kleber Monod



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Autore: Monod Paul Kleber Visualizza persona
Titolo: Solomon's secret arts : the occult in the age of enlightenment / / Paul Kleber Monod Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (457 p.)
Disciplina: 130.9
Soggetto topico: Alchemy
Enlightenment
Magic
Occult sciences
Science - History - Miscellanea
Classificazione: HIS037040PHI016000HIS015000OCC016000
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Solomon's secret arts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-48346-1
0-300-19539-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809746303321
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