Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism

by Richard Kaczynski, Martin P. Starr, Henrik Bogdan

Book Overview

This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a study in contradictions. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family and educated at Cambridge, he was vilified as a traitor, drug addict, and debaucher, yet revered as perhaps the most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. Moving beyond the influence of contemporary psychology and the modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199863091
• ISBN13: 9780199863099
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"