An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy
parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same
themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient
Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought:
alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward
philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active
engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European
Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa,
Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee,
Robert Fludd, Jacob Boehme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van
Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book
considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg,
Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S.
T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th
century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando
Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.
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