Paul Kléber Monod, Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment and John V. Fleming, The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Enlightenment
Keywords:
Paul Kléber Monod, John V. Fleming, Occultism, Enlightenment, Commercialisation, Science, Imagination, Mysticism, Alchemy, Wizards, History and CriticismAbstract
Review by Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University) of Paul Kléber Monod, Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 430. $45. ISBN 9780300123586 and John V. Fleming, The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Enlightenment. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. $27.95. Pp. 414. ISBN 9780393079463.
