Per Faxneld

The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh: A Luciferian Pamphlet from 1906 and its Current Renaissance

In diesem Aufsatz wird ein fruher und ziemlich unbekannter Satanist namens Ben Kadosh behandelt (Carl William Hansen 1872-1936), der in Danemark am Anfang des 20en Jahrhunderts tatig war. Kadosh ha ...

The Devil is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century

During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers’ emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which ...

‘Only Poets and Occultists Believe in Them Just Now’: Fairies and the Modernist Crisis of Authorship

A fragmentation of self often informed the modernist quest for redefining the authorial self, a development explored in this chapter. The focus lies on the crisis of authorship as it manifested in the works of British writers and artists who claimed to have been inspired by fairies or even had their works produced by fairies. Occultist, antiquarian and artistic discourses concerning fairies could collide, as the chapter’s case study of William Butler Yeats shows. In a milieu where fairies were captured in photographs and cited as inspiration for paintings and literature, fairies could play an important role in experiments into fragmenting the authorial self, contributing to the modernist perception of the creative subject as passive and unstable, or even splintered, by ascribing artistic innovation to external entities.