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Solomon's Secret Arts - The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Solomon's Secret Arts - The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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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 anti-establishment 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 favour 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.
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