Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival

This reprint of the 1972 original biographical history of French occult figure Eliphas Levi provides a new generation with access to an interesting work on the important writer and occult priest as well as the general history of the occult movement in the 1800s, its influence on later writers such as Aleister Crowley and its echoes through a variety of other cultural spheres such as art and philosophy. McIntosh teaches at the Centre of the Study of Esotericism at the University of Exeter, England Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Christopher McIntosh is a faculty member at the Centre of the Study of Esotericism, University of Exeter, England. He is the author of The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press.