12-27-2025, 01:24 PM
Erica Lagalisse
Occult Features of Anarchism
With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples
"“Erica Lagalisse’s Occult Features of Anarchism is a wonderful and learned provocation. Taking the concept of modern politics as a form of theology and magical ritual, she traces some aspects of the origins of socialist and anarchist politics and performance to the Hermetic tradition that influenced the Radical Enlightenment and its originators, in, for example, the work of Spinoza. But she also argues that this “magical” or Hermetic tradition rested on a masculinist coup against women’s knowledge, especially in the transformation of women healers into malevolent witches."
https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/e...chism-book
Occult Features of Anarchism
With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples
"“Erica Lagalisse’s Occult Features of Anarchism is a wonderful and learned provocation. Taking the concept of modern politics as a form of theology and magical ritual, she traces some aspects of the origins of socialist and anarchist politics and performance to the Hermetic tradition that influenced the Radical Enlightenment and its originators, in, for example, the work of Spinoza. But she also argues that this “magical” or Hermetic tradition rested on a masculinist coup against women’s knowledge, especially in the transformation of women healers into malevolent witches."
https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/e...chism-book