A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Gibbons, B.J. | Copyright information

A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern. By Corinna Treitel. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 366. $16.95.)

In a broad survey of the occult movement in Germany from the 1870s to the 1940s, the author seeks to establish various "connections between the German occult and the quintessentially modern," especially in terms of the arts and applied sciences. No serious student of Western occultism will be surprised by ...

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