The Importance of Swedenborg to Emerson's Ethics
by Dr. Anders Hallengren
Type of Event: Address
Date Recorded: 8 Feb, 1988
Location: Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 4: Swedenborg and the American Enlightenment. Anders Hallengren, a native of Stockholm, received a Masters Degree from the University of Stockholm with the thesis, "Emerson's Unio Mystica." He has taught literature and philosophy, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University in 1987. Having published numerous books and pamphlets, he has been awarded a research grant from the Swedenborg fund of the royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His dissertation on Emerson and Swedenborg will be published this year.
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