- Jean-Pierre Laurant
Jean-Pierre Laurant ( [1935] - ) is a French historian of
esotericism .Biography
Laurant was born in 1935 in
Paris and studied at the Lycée Claude Bernard. Two major early influences wereJulien Gracq andJean-René Huguenin , in whose weekly "Arts" Laurant published.After studying history at the
Sorbonne , Laurant taught at thelycée inSoissons ,Picardy . He was electedmayor of the commune of Vézaponin (population 109-129 persons), near Soissons.In 1975, he started to give pioneering courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century
esotericism at theEcole pratique des hautes études of theSorbonne .Laurant was a founder and director of "
Politica hermetica ," an influential association for the study of the social influence of esoteric thought that published a journal of the same name.In 1990, he received the degree of
docteur ès lettres from theUniversity of Paris XII.elect bibliography
* "L'ésotérisme chrétien en France au XIXe siècle" ISBN 2-8251-0330-6
* "Matgioi, un aventurier taoïste" ISBN 2-85076-151-6
* "René Guénon" ISBN 2-85197-055-0
* "L'Ésotérisme" ISBN 2-204-04850-X
* "René Guénon: Les enjeux d'une lecture" (2006) ISBN 2-84454-423-1
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