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Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture
- Title
- Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture / Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
- Author
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 468 pages; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The history of truth: recovering ancient wisdom -- Competing macrohistories -- Platonic orientalism -- The Christian apologists -- The wise man from the east: George Gemistos Plethon -- The Platonic theologian: Marsilio Ficino -- Secret moses: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Christian kabbalah -- The universal Catholic: Agostino Steuco -- The end of a cycle -- The history of error: exorcizing paganism -- Against the pagans -- Against the fathers -- The anti-apologist: Jacob Thomasius -- The heresiologist: Ehregott Daniel Colberg -- The pietist reaction -- The birth of religionism: Gottfried Arnold -- Enlightenment and eclipse -- The historian: Jacob Brucker -- The parting of the ways -- The error of history: imagining the occult -- Tainted terminologies 1: superstition -- Tainted terminologies 2: magic -- Tainted terminologies 3: occult -- Alchemy between science and religion -- The organization of secrecy -- The occult marketplace -- Elemental fiction -- Compendia of rejected knowledge -- Secret traditions and hidden histories -- The waste land -- The truth of history: entering the academy -- Magnetic historiography: German romantic Mesmerism and evolutionism -- The archetype of Eranos: Carl Gustav Jung and the western unconscious -- Eranos and religionism: Scholem, Corbin, Eliade -- The return of the historians: from Peuckert and Thorndike to Frances Yates -- Antoine Faivre and western esotericism -- Esotericism in the academy -- Conclusion: restoring memory.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-3392
- ISBN
- 9780521196215 (hardback)
- 0521196213 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011045460
- OCLC
- YBP 2011045460
- Author
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
- Title
- Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture / Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
- Imprint
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-3392