Ernst Benz. Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.(Book Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Garrett, Clarke | Copyright information

Intr. and trans. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2002. xxi + 536 pp. $24.95

IT HAS TAKEN OVER FIFTY YEARS for Ernst Benz's work, surely the most substantial and scholarly study of the eighteenth-century scientist and visionary by a non-Swedenborgian, to reach an English-speaking public. The book was first published in Munich in 1948. Over twenty years later, a revised edition appeared, in which Benz was able to include some of the notes...

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