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The more than 30 essays in this volume examine the engagement of
the Enlightenment with esoteric traditions of the Early Modern Era
and the transformative pathways by which Hermeticism, magic,
alchemy, and Kabbalah influenced Spiritualism, Occultism, and
Theosophy. The contributors explore intersections between the
Enlightenment and Esotericism and identify the concerns and
preoccupations that made possible the transition to modern
esotericism.
The Age of Enlightenment continues the debate with traditional
elements from Neo-Platonism and Hermetism, Pythagoreanism, magic,
alchemy and Kabbalah which today are subsumed under the heading of
early modern age esotericism. The reactions range from the critical
or historicising to emphatic acceptance and integration. At the
same time, however, the discourse of the age also gives rise to
polemic confrontations with the newly emerging esoteric formations.
The papers in this volume explore these tense constellations with
their progression in the 18th century.
This volume assembles letters from the period of the secret
society's headlong growth in the first six years of its existence.
From its beginnings with Thomas More, the classical Utopian
tradition laid claim to the status of a regulatory principle or
ideal. In the 18th century this changed radically. This volume is
designed to trace the way in which the Enlightenment brought the
problem of how to actually change existing conditions into the
discussion on Utopianism, thus generating forms of legitimization
for social praxis anticipating developments in the 19th century.
The articles were originally papers held at a symposium on "The
Politicization of Utopianism in the 18th Century" organized at the
Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European
Enlightenment in Halle in early 1995.
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