The Covert Enlightenment.The Covert Enlightenment Alfred J. Gabay Swedenborg Foundation 320 North Church Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania The Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania.GR6 Philadelphia is 25 miles to the east and Wilmington 17 miles to the south. 19380 0877853142 $19.95 www.amazon.com Professor Alfred J. Gabay presents The Covert Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Counterculture coun·ter·cul·ture n. A culture, especially of young people, with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture. coun and Its Aftermath, a scholarly examination of the influence of theologist and spiritual converser Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) on nineteenth-century America. Chapters examine ripple effects from Swedenborg's metaphysical insights, including discussions of Franz Anton Mesmer and animal magnetism animal magnetism, n theory advanced and practiced by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer in the late 18th century as a healing technique, according to which a natural fluid exists throughout the universe, in and between all people and earthly and heavenly bodies. , the Marquis de Puysegur and the alternate-consciousness paradigm, and transformations that continued to rework re·work tr.v. re·worked, re·work·ing, re·works 1. To work over again; revise. 2. To subject to a repeated or new process. n. America after the shift described as the "Covert" Enlightenment came to a close. Extensively researched and featuring an index for easy reference, The Covert Enlightenment is a most intriguing in-depth study of Swedenborg's contribution to American underground theology, metaphysics metaphysics (mĕtəfĭz`ĭks), branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of existence. It perpetuates the Metaphysics of Aristotle, a collection of treatises placed after the Physics [Gr. , and intellectual culture. |
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