An enticing intellectual history of various esoteric currents from the early Romantic period to the early twentieth century. The author maintains that the Theosophical Society held a crucial position as the place where all those currents temporarily united, before diverging agai…
"Si le rôle des religions en politique est bien connu, celui de l'occultisme, leur frère ennemi, n'a guère été étudié et révélé jusqu'ici. Pourtant, de nombreux épisodes de l'histoire ont été marqués ... ". Cet énoncé de la quatrième de couverture présente bien cette recherche i…
The relationship between Nazism and occultism has been an object of fascination and speculation for decades. Peter Staudenmaier's Between Occultism and Nazism provides a detailed historical examination centered on the anthroposophist movement founded by Rudolf Steiner. Its surpr…
"In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson argues that the early modern English believed their affections and behavior were influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies that coursed through the natural world. These forces not only produced emotional relationships but t…