Distant Voices: Sketches of a Swedenborgian World View
- ISBN-10
- 0854482024
- ISBN-13
- 9780854482023
- Series
- Distant Voices
- Category
- Essays
- Pages
- 396
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Swedenborg Foundation
- Author
- John S. Haller
Description
John S. Haller presents a series of essays on key figures in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries connected by their fascination with the philosopher, scientist, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Highlighted figures include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Fourier, and D. T. Suzuki.
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