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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Swedenborg"”.
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… inspiration, but too frequently the position of Swedenborg in Blake's thought is reduced by scholars to Blake's assumed parody of Swedenborg in his poem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. While the problem of this influence will be explored, I shall primarily argue that both men derived their …
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L’economia della natura e il respiro del mondo. La filosofia della natura di Swedenborg tra Herder e Schelling (1770-1810)
… life and nature. In this perspective, Emanuel Swedenborgʼs philosophy of nature can be considered as a paradigm for many concepts, all related to the problem of life, which are very important for the German philosophers such as Herder and Schelling. For this reason, I will consider the …
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The Swedenborgian influence on William Blake
The aim of the thesis is to examine the Blake-Swedenborg connection, and the influence this Swede's writings may have had on Blake's published work. In particular The Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are considered in detail to assess a Swedenborgian …
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… interlocutor in this respect was Emanuel Swedenborg. Kant refers to his visions and the tone of his writings as Schwärmerei, that is an exaltation or an exalted tone. The problem of explaining the conditions of possibility or impossibility of the knowledge-claims of this type, is apparent …
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
… influences, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emanual Swedenborg, leads to transcendence. The Christian belief that the greatness of God was born into the microcosm of a human baby, Jesus Christ, is an example of the "great and small" collapsing into one. Jewett uses and, in a way, redefines this image …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of Nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
During the height of the Victorian Period and the development of the sensation novel, the public eagerly consumed the writings of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the author was a household name. In the current age, however, scholarly criticism often focuses on “Carmilla” (1872) and other texts in …