I can try…. When I find out who he actually is.
~Caroline.
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wow, can you get him on this list? sounds like a great take on AC
DaveEOn Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I noticed this abstract (below) amongst the University of Melbourne School of Historical and Philosophical Studies ‘Work In Progress Day’ presentations. I don’t know this guy, but thought it was interesting that he was doing something on Aleister Crowley as that is _very unusual _ at Melbourne Uni. I will try to get to it – he’s on straight after me, in another room.
High on the British Empire
November 3 2011
9.15 – 10.45 am Old Arts Lecture Theatre B
The Daughter of the Beast: Grief and Death in the Thought of Aleister Crowley
Ben McDonald
Aleister Crowley is mostly remembered as a mad egoist, a sexual fiend, and a fascist thug. To an extent, the self-styled “Beast” deserves this reputation, which he earned for himself through a life of drugs, debauchery, and debt. It was not, however, the legacy that this earnest occultist hoped for, nor is it a legacy that says much about the content of his thoughts and writings.
For the first time, I consider Crowley within the wider context of attitudes towards death and grief in interwar Britain, a period commonly characterised as one of unhappy emotional restraint. I examine his often lurid thoughts on life and death, his attempts to conquer his rampant love of self, and his reaction to the death of his infant daughter - a moment of profound grief and a rare moment of human tenderness for the “wickedest man in Britain.”