Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 1953Template:Spaced ndash29 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the World Wars and Western esotericism.
Early life and educationEdit
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was born in Lincoln, England, on 15 January 1953.<ref name="Times2012" /> and was an Open Exhibitioner at Lancing College. He studied German, politics, and philosophy at the University of Bristol, and gained a Bachelor of Arts with distinction.<ref name="Times2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Moving to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Goodrick-Clarke obtained a D.Phil. with a dissertation on the modern occult revival and Theosophy at the end of the twentieth century.
CareerEdit
Goodrick-Clarke's Ph.D. dissertation was the basis for his most celebrated work, The Occult Roots of Nazism.<ref name="Whaley2004" /><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages. Later notable works include his well-regarded Paracelsus: Essential Readings, published in 1990, and Black Sun, published in 2002.<ref name="Whaley2004">Template:Cite journal</ref>
In his varied career, Goodrick-Clarke worked as a schoolmaster, banker, and a successful fundraiser for The Campaign for Oxford. In 2002, he was appointed a Research Fellow in Western Esotericism at the University of Lampeter,<ref name="Times2012" /> and then in 2005 he was appointed to a personal chair in the Department of History at Exeter University. As Professor of Western Esotericism and Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO), he developed a successful distance-learning M.A. in Western Esotericism and successfully supervised a number of doctoral students. While at Exeter he wrote The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction, published in 2008.
In 1983, Goodrick-Clarke was one of the founder members of "The Society", an informal London-based association of professional and amateur scholars of esotericism, including Ellic Howe, the publisher Michael Cox, John Hamill, and the scholar of Rosicrucianism, Christopher McIntosh. He was a founding member of both the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and the Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE), in America. He was a faculty member of the New York Open Center from 1995.
Later life and deathEdit
Goodrick-Clarke was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO) within the College of Humanities at Exeter until his death. He died on 29 August 2012, of pancreatic cancer.<ref name="Times2012" /><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He married his wife Clare in 1985.<ref name="Times2012" />
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- Handbook of the Theosophical Current, 2013 Template:ISBN
- Constructing Tradition: Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism, 2010 Template:ISBN
- Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason by Ernst Benz, translated and introduced by Goodrick-Clarke – Template:ISBN .
- Paracelsus: Essential Readings, edited by Goodrick-Clarke – Template:ISBN .
- Swedenborg and New Paradigm Science by Ursula Groll, translated by Goodrick-Clarke – Template:ISBN .
- The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited, 1999 – Template:ISBN
- Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century, 1989 Template:ISBN
- Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International by Kevin Coogan, foreword by Goodrick-Clarke, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY 1998 – Template:ISBN .
- Rudolf Steiner by Rudolf Steiner (Author), Richard Seddon (Editor), Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (Preface) Publisher: North Atlantic Books Template:ISBN Template:ISBN
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