Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to Covid-19

William Burns is a historian who lives in the Washington DC area. His interests include the history of science and the history of early modern and modern astrology. He has edited Astrology through History (2018), a reference book on the history of astrology and published articles on seventeenth-century astrology.

• 1. Introduction - William Burns .- 2. Modern Western Astrology as a Form of Indigenous Thought - Nicholas Campion .- 3. Astrology, Modernity and the Disputed Nature of Self - Garry Phillipson .- 4. Science of the Stars: WWI and the Professionalization of Astrology in the US - Patricia Cecil .- 5. The Power of a Name: Albert the Great, the Speculum astronomiae, and Legitimization of Astrology and Astrological Magic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - Scott E. Hendrix .- 6. Astral and hermetic symbolism in Béla Hamvas’ Tabula Smaragdina - Péter Kecskés .- 7. Friends, foes and frenemies: The social relations of planets - Lakshmi Srinivas .- 8. Images of Blood, Stories of the Stars: Astrology in its Shifting Cultural Context - Arthur Williamson .- 9. American Astrologers and Covid-19 - William Burns.