Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness: Social Reform Thought from the Enlightenment to American Pragmatism

by JOHN S. HALLER

Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness highlights Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) widespread influence on an impressive host of historical figures--from poets and artists to philosophers and statesmen--and reform movements whose contributions to the evolution of self and society have resonated throughout time and into the present.

As evidenced in the self-reliance of the great Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went so far as to refer to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877853568
• ISBN13: 9780877853565
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"