The Spiritual History of Ice

The Spiritual History of Ice
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781403981806
ISBN-13 : 1403981809
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Book Synopsis The Spiritual History of Ice by : E. Wilson

Download or read book The Spiritual History of Ice written by E. Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being. The Spiritual History of Ice explores this ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.


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