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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Swedenborg, French Culture, and the Dream of an Absolute Language | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Politics, Magic, and Language: Swedenborgianism in the Works of Alphonse-Louis Constant, a.k.a. Eliphas Levi | 19 |
| Two Names, One Career: From Alphonse-Louis Constant to Eliphas Levi | 21 | |
| Constant/Levi's "Les correspondances" | 24 | |
| Echoes of "Les correspondances" in Constant/Levi's prose | 27 | |
| Magic, Politics, and Duplicity: Constant/Levi's Dogme et rituel de la haute magie | 31 | |
| Language, Mesmerism, and Charisma: The Preface to the 1861 Edition of Dogme et rituel de la haute magie and Histoire de la magie | 37 | |
| Ch. 2 | Swedenborg's Correspondences and the Cultures of the Enlightenment | 55 |
| The Worlds of Emanuel Swedenborg | 58 | |
| Swedenborg's Interpretation of Dreams: The Journal of 1743-44 | 68 | |
| The Word "Represent" in the Journal of 1743-44 | 91 | |
| Heaven and Hell: Utopian Spheres and the Pleasures of Reading | 93 | |
| Ch. 3 | Who Has the Word? Swedenborgianism and Popular Culture in France, 1780-1865 | 107 |
| Swedenborgian Performances: Alphonse Cahagnet's Seances | 109 | |
| Combien en durera cette societe? J.-F.-E. Le Boys des Guays and the French Swedenborgians | 112 | |
| Language, Rituals, and Utopias: Eighteenth-Century Interpretations of Swedenborgianism in France | 116 | |
| Hunger and Hallucinations: The Emigre Perspective | 121 | |
| Eclecticism and Flanerie: The Interpretations of Edouard Richer and Guillaume Oegger | 123 | |
| Beyond the Myth? Mid-Nineteenth-Century Accounts | 135 | |
| Swedenborgianism and Popular Culture | 141 | |
| Ch. 4 | The Underside of History: Swedenborgianism and La comedie humaine | 147 |
| Swedenborgianism and Representation in La comedie humaine | 148 | |
| Balzac's "Swedenborgianism" and Its Contexts | 152 | |
| Desire and Tradition: The Other Worlds of Les etudes philosophiques | 156 | |
| Through a Glass Darkly: Swedenborgianism in Les etudes de moeurs | 194 | |
| Ch. 5 | Baudelaire's Correspondence: Language, Censorship, and Mourning | 217 |
| A Volume of Swedenborg under his arm: Baudelaire and Swedenborgianism | 220 | |
| Fictional Polarities and the Aesthete's Dilemma: Baudelaire's References to Swedenborg | 223 | |
| Towards a Universal Language of Art? Baudelaire's Correspondances | 239 | |
| Conclusion | 249 | |
| Appendix: Baudelaire's "Correspondances" and Constant/Levi's "Les correspondances" | 257 | |
| Notes | 261 | |
| Works Cited | 301 | |
| Index | 321 |
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Jeremy Tollberg
reviewed Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture on April 12, 2009
Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture
This book has been invaluable to my reading of Sartre. Specifically, the concept of an "internal relation" which this book describes effectively, has made Sartre's use of paradox throughout Being and Nothingness seem far more like a feature than a bug.
The writing is clear and engaging which makes this book worth a read even if you aren't doing so to better understand Being and Nothingness. I'm doing my undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the moment and this is the book of philosophy that I have been most motivated to read.
The links to Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein were interesting and very informative, they help to justify an intense study of Sartre. I sometimes wondered if my obsession with Sartre would be self-contained and therefore leave my other interests unaffected, but the fruitful dialogues with other thinkers exhibited in this book suggests that this needn't be the case.
I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in Sartre's work, especially in Being and Nothingness. Katherine Morris offers a unique and intelligible perspective on Sartre's major stances in B and N, making his arguments coherent without sanitising them beyond attributability.
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