Books for Loan | • Biography   Kant on Swedenborg: Dreams of a Spirit-Seer and Other Writings by Gregory Johnson. Paperback. "Gregory Johnson has translated a text that represents a crucial instance of the eighteenth-century struggle between a burgeoning Enlightenment and older more visionary modes of thought. His translation of Dreams of a Spirit-Seer is lucid and elegant and captures the stylistic tics of a Kant who writes more in the rhetorical scatological mode of Voltaire than in the sober prose of his mature critical period. Best of all, Johnson has translated a considerable amount of other material from Kant's texts and letters reflecting on Swedenborg. In tandem with Dreams, these other writings paint a much more complicated picture of Kant's attitude toward Swedenborg than received wisdom would have it, while helpfully complicating our understanding of the agon between Enlightenment and vision in the eighteenth century." Prof. Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame. SKU: Price: $0.00 Send this page to a friend! Quantity:

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