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(More customer reviews)This is a book that should really be on your shelf if you are interested in finding your way around Swedenborg's voluminous works.
There is simply no better reference book for tracking down titles, figuring out when they were written, what they are about, and where they have been published.
But beyond this, there are fascinating and carefully written scholarly accounts of the subsequent history and impact of these works.
Knowing something of what it would contain, I got a copy as soon as it was published - but then I opened it and found many unexpected gems as well.
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The essays in this volume testify to the far-reaching effects of Emanuel Swedenborg's works in Western culture. From his early days as an ambitious young scientist in the ferment of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europe, through his mid-life entrance into an ongoing experience of the spiritual world, to his last decades as a researcher of things spiritual, Swedenborg built a career that left a unique legacy. His vivid descriptions of the nonphysical realm made a powerful impression on minds as diverse as Goethe, Blake, Emerson, Yeats, and Borges.
This book serves as a self-contained resource on Swedenborg's life and thought and as a gateway into further exploration of the labyrinthine garden of Swedenborg's works. It includes a biography, rich in fascinating detail; lively overviews of the content and history of Swedenborg's writings on spiritual topics; and essays tracing Swedenborg's impact in various regions of the world.
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