Mysticism and German Idealism
By Friedemann Horn
Translated by George F. Dole
Swedenborg Studies #6
Scholar Friedemann Horn documents Friedrich Schelling’s intense personal engagement with the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, an engagement fueled by the deaths of two women whom Schelling loved.
Paperback and e-book, 239 pages
Description
In this groundbreaking study, Friedemann Horn documents Friedrich Schelling’s intense personal engagement with Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works, an engagement fueled to a considerable extent by the untimely death of two women whom Schelling loved. In Swedenborg’s vision of the spiritual realm, Schelling found an invaluable resource that supplied an underpinning for his own romantic idealism. Horn details the linguistic similarities in the writings of the two philosophers and shows how, particularly in Clara and the Stuttgart Lectures, Schelling employs the ideas of the “seer of the North.”
The scholar will find suggestive contacts with Goethe, Wagner, and Franz von Baader, and with a theosophical tradition whose importance may have been overshadowed by Kant’s scathing criticism of Swedenborg. In giving access to that undercurrent, Horn provides a unique and neglected view of nineteenth-century thought.
Reviews
“Horn’s groundbreaking study, a combination of superb scholarship, lucid writing, and stimulating discourse, is made, at last, accessible to an English readership.”
โProfessor Antoine Faivre, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
About the Swedenborg Studies Series
Swedenborg Studies is a scholarly series published by the Swedenborg Foundation. The primary purpose of the series is to make materials available for understanding the life and thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688โ1772) and the impact his thought has had on others. The Foundation undertakes to publish original studies and English translations and to republish primary sources that are otherwise difficult to access.
Additional information
Author | Friedemann Horn |
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Translator | George F. Dole |
Format | e-book, paperback |
ISBN | 978-0-87785-186-8, 978-0-87785-639-9 |
Length | 239 pages |
Series | Swedenborg Studies #6 |