The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason by John Fleming

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013-07-22. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013-07-22. Hardcover. New.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Library stamp to lower exterior page edges, no other markings. Glossy dust jacket. 414pp..

Norton, 2013. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight and bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 414pp., illus.

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New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. xv, 414 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment, generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion, were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the darker pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy. Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, 2013-07-22. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

NY:: Norton,. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 9780393079463 . First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. .

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013. Hardcover. New. 432 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches.

Hardback. New. Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.