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The most comprehensive single contribution to date on Swedenborg’s influence on the History of Ideas. This volume contains a collection of essays by leading writers looking specifically at Swedenborg’s place within the history of philosophy, literature and mysticism. A key textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate research into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies, and also a good general introduction to Swedenborg.
Please note this title is currently out of print but a revised edition is forthcoming.
table of contents
Preface Stephen McNeilly
Foreword Inge Jonsson
PART ONE
1—Swedenborg and Kant on spiritual intuition Michelle Gilmore-Grier
2—Swedenborg’s positive influence on the development of Kant’s mature moral philosophy Gregory R Johnson
3—C S Peirce and Swedenborg Eugene Taylor
4—Schopenhauer as reader of Swedenborg Gregory R Johnson
5—‘Swedenborg’s Meaning is the truth’: Coleridge, Tulk and Swedenborg H J Jackson
6—Swedenborgian simile in Emersonian edification Anders Hallengren
7—Swedenborg, existentialism and the active life Gary Lachman
PART TWO
8—Blake and Swedenborg Czeslaw Milosz
9—Balzac and Swedenborg Saori Osuga
10—Spiritualized science and the celestial artist:Nathaniel Hawthorne and Swedenborgian aesthetics Devin P Zuber
11—The spiritual detective: how Baudelaire invented Symbolism, by way of Swedenborg, E T A Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe Gary Lachman
12—A hermeneutic key to the title Leaves of Grass Anders Hallengren
13—Swedenborg and Dostoevsky: an interview Czeslaw Milosz
14—Ideal homes: James, Rossetti and Swedenborg’s House of Life Hazel Hutchison
15—‘Through Death to Love’: Swedenborgian imagery in the painting and poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Anna Maddison
PART THREE
16—Swedenborg the mystic Czeslaw Milosz
17—Jacob Boehme, Emanuel Swedenborg and their readers Ariel Hessayon
18—‘The Swedishman at Brother Brockmer’s’: Moravians and Swedenborgians in eighteenth-century London Keri Davies
19—Handel, Hogarth and Swedenborg: manners and morals in eighteenth-century London Richard Lines
20—Jung and his intellectual context: the Swedenborgian connection Eugene Taylor
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