Credere aude:

Mystifying Enlightenment

Giovanna Summerfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

147 Seiten

2008
Narr Francke Attempto (Verlag)
978-3-8233-6383-5 (ISBN)

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By analyzing the Kantian response to the query What is Enlightenment?, esotericism, and, more specifically, Freemasonry as a spiritual search, this study offers a re-interpretation of the eighteenth century, one in which Enlightenment, as the predominance of rationalism, and Illuminisme are viewed as complementary rather than antithetical. By focusing on the history and nature of continental Freemasonry and the Masonic affiliation of two French authors as expressed in their work Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Dominique Vivant Denon this study addresses issues of importance today. Links between material possessions, humanself-realization, and regeneration, which were exploited by these writers, call for a new look at the esoteric origins of and component in psychoanalysis, spirituality, sexuality, and power, and, ultimately, cause us to view our modern society as, in part, the inheritor of a spiritual legacy from the eighteenth century.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.5.2008
Reihe/Serie	études littéraires francaises ; 72
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	235 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
Schlagworte	Aufklärung • Aufklärung (Zeitalter) • Enlightenment • esotericism • Hardcover, Softcover / Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • human self-realization • Literaturwissenschaft • material possessions • Rationalism • Regeneration • Romanistik
ISBN-10	3-8233-6383-2 / 3823363832
ISBN-13	978-3-8233-6383-5 / 9783823363835
Zustand	Neuware