Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France.(Book review)

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Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France. By David Allen Harvey. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. viii + 274 pp. $38.00 cloth.

Beyond Enlightenment is an impressive and erudite study of Martinism, a uniquely French strain of European occultism, which David Harvey traces from its formation in the eighteenth century to its revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth. Because of its complex and confusing ties with a variety of other movements in the nineteenth century, such as theosophy and spiritism, Harvey on several occasions ...

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