Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen McNeilly

Swedenborg: Introducing the Mystic

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Produktbeschreibung

Swedenborg: Introducing the Mystic, originally published in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men in 1850, casts a sharp critical eye over the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), placing him among other great men of genius such as Michel de Montaigne and William Shakespeare. It has since become one of the most influential and widely read essays on Swedenborg ever written.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Swedenborg Foundation
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780854481569
• ISBN-10: 0854481567
• Artikelnr.: 42379555

Autorenporträt

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a globally renowned writer, essayist, poet, and lecturer who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Heralded today as one of the greatest writers of North America, Emerson had a profound influence on subsequent US and European literature and philosophy. His key works include Nature (1836), The American Scholar (1837), and The Conduct of Life (1860). Swedenborg: Introducing the Mystic is taken from his 1850 classic Representative Men. Stephen McNeilly is the director of the Swedenborg Society and series editor of the Journal of the Swedenborg Society and the Swedenborg Archive imprint. For the Society he has published numerous volumes, including An Angel Speaks with Homero Aridjis and J. M. G. Le Clézio; Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: An Anthology of Essays with Czeslaw Milosz et al.; Swimming to Heaven: the Lost Rivers of London with Iain Sinclair; Blake's London: The Topographic Sublime with Iain Sinclair; and Several Clouds Colliding with Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. He is also a visiting lecturer in art, philosophy and critical theory at several universities in the United Kingdom.