A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult - Softcover

Lachman, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560256567 ISBN 13: 9781560256564

Verlag: Basic Books, 2004

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Book by Lachman Gary

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"It's a sure thing that anyone with a taste for literary esoterica and magical history will learn something from "A Dark Muse. It's a cavernous grotto full of dark, glittering jewels."

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The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de siècle, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry.

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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1560256567
• ISBN 13: 9781560256564
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388