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Lädt ... Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenmentvon Paul Kléber Monod
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Reminiscent of the perspective adopted in Keith Thomas’ celebrated Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), Monod’s scepticism here will unsettle some readers. It sits a little oddly with his mission to lay to rest ‘a conception of the occult as the eternal bogeyman of modernity, bent on the undoing of reason and progress’. Nevertheless this thoroughly researched and interesting survey succeeds in underlining the ambivalences of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Britain. It highlights the slippery and contested character of these movements and compels us to rethink their relationship with intellectual traditions that they marginalised.
"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"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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