A History of the Occult Tarot: 1870-1970 - Couverture rigide

Decker, Ronald; Dummett, Sir Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0715631225 ISBN 13 : 9780715631225

Editeur : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Dummett Michael Decker Ronald

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When the Tarot pack was invented in Italy in the early fifteenth century, it was simply a pack of cards, used for playing games. Esoteric interpretations of the pack date from late eighteenth-century France, and were confined to that country for a hundred years, as described in A Wicked Pack of Cards (1996) by the present authors and Thierry Depaulis. Nowadays, however, the cards are used throughout the Western world and not only for fortune telling; for real believers the pack is a key to secret knowledge of the meaning of life.

Practised by secret groups such as the Order of the Golden Dawn, by magi such as Aleister Crowley. the 'Great Beast', and by psychics such as Dion Fortune, the occult interpretation of the Tarot pack is a worldwide phenomenon with countless devotees. The roots of the whole modern Tarot mystique lie in extravagant theories propagated by the occultists studied in this fascinating history.

The strange phenomenon of Tarot occultism forets a significant part of modern social history. In A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970, Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett bring Io light its fascinating development throughout the world, and particularly in Britain and the United States.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ronald Decker is an art historian and former curator of a notable collection of antique cards at the United States Playing-Card Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Michael Dummett was Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford 1979-1992, and is the author of The Game of Tarot (1980) and other books on Tarot cards and games, as well as books on philosophy and voting theory.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0715631225
• ISBN 13: 9780715631225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320