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McNeilly, Stephen. [editor]
Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism.
Publisher: Swedenborg Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2013
Stock Code: 11973
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. xxxv, [3], 485, [1]. Bound in cream publisher’s cloth over boards with arsenic green titles to spine, in the unclipped pictorial publisher’s dust-jacket. Housed in a matching cream slipcase lettered in arsenic green. Slipcase very lightly soiled. Near fine. Ambitious anthology addressing Swedenborg’s far-reaching impact on European intellectual history including moral philosophy, symbolism, existentialism, and psychodynamic theory. Comprising of 20 erudite essays outlining his influence on figures such as William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Charles Baudelaire. Compiled and edited by the editor of the Swedenborg Society Journal. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £50.00