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The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day

The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/156798909X444842 ARIES . () – ARIES www.brill.nl/arie Book Reviews David S. Katz, The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day , London: Pimlico . xi +  p., ill. ISBN -. The “occult tradition” is not understood here as an imaginary notion, but as something real, whose manifestations the author tries to trace in the history of Western culture. He considers it possible ‘to speak of a unified occult tradition’, which is ‘a body of knowledge’ ()—hence the singular in the main title. What is its defining characteristic? He quotes Adorno, who had written that it is ‘the readiness to relate the unrelated’ (), and in several passages he complements this definition by adding another general dimension, namely the belief in the supernatural. As to the subtitle, it sets the chronology within the period that runs from its flowering during the European Renaissance, through to the period from the th to the th centuries, up to and including—as the author makes clear at the outset—the American Fundamentalist movement. His approach, although limited to the last six centuries, bears on a wide array of variegated domains, far beyond the “modern http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aries Brill

The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day

Faivre, Antoine
Aries , Volume 9 (2): 263 – Jan 1, 2009
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/156798909X444842 ARIES . () – ARIES www.brill.nl/arie Book Reviews David S. Katz, The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day , London: Pimlico . xi +  p., ill. ISBN -. The “occult tradition” is not understood here as an imaginary notion, but as something real, whose manifestations the author tries to trace in the history of Western culture. He considers it possible ‘to speak of a unified occult tradition’, which is ‘a body of knowledge’ ()—hence the singular in the main title. What is its defining characteristic? He quotes Adorno, who had written that it is ‘the readiness to relate the unrelated’ (), and in several passages he complements this definition by adding another general dimension, namely the belief in the supernatural. As to the subtitle, it sets the chronology within the period that runs from its flowering during the European Renaissance, through to the period from the th to the th centuries, up to and including—as the author makes clear at the outset—the American Fundamentalist movement. His approach, although limited to the last six centuries, bears on a wide array of variegated domains, far beyond the “modern

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