Temná stránka evropského osvícenství

• Authors: Ivo Cerman

Title variants

EN

The Dark Side of European Enlightenment

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article introduces esoteric currents of European Enlightenment, which are sometimes referred to as the dark side of Enlightenment. We propose referring to them as illuminism, because they involve a movement, which was not a component of the Enlightenment, but rather its competitor. Our concept is based on six characteristics of esotericism according to Antoine Faivre, but we have adapted them to our purpose, i.e. distinction between illuminism and Enlightenment. Finally, we briefly introduce the main centres and persons of European illuminism. We emphasize the significance of a dialogue with Russia in the all-European context, the north-German and south-German centre within Central Europe and Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg in France.

Keywords

EN

enlightenment; illuminism; esotericism; hermetism; kabala

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 307-326

Contributors

author

Ivo Cerman

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, Branišovská 31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic