Research Catalog

Title

Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe : esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Kocku von Stuckrad.

Author

Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Details

Description

xiii, 240 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The contents of this book cover Europe and the Christendom narrative, the polemical construction of tradition, genealogies of wisdom, Jewish perspectives, conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse, and much more.

Series Statement

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 186

Uniform Title

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186.

Subject

• Geschichte 1200-1800
• Geschichte 1200-1800
• Occultism > Europe > History
• Discourse analysis > Europe
• Occultism > Europe > History > Sources
• Group identity > Europe > History
• Cultural pluralism > Europe > History
• Social change > Europe > History
• Geheimwissenschaft
• Gruppenidentität
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Soziale Situation
• Identiteit
• Esoterisme
• Gruppenidentität
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Soziale Situation
• Esoterik
• Esoterism > historia > Europa
• Ockultism > historia > Europa
• Geschichte
• Cultural pluralism
• Discourse analysis
• Group identity
• Intellectual life
• Occultism
• Social change
• Social conditions
• Religious life and customs
• Europe > Intellectual life
• Europe > Intellectual life > Sources
• Europe > Social conditions
• Europe > Religious life and customs
• Europa
• Europa
• Europa > intellektuellt liv > historia > källor
• Europe

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion -- Europe and the Christendom narrative -- From singularization to pluralism -- The secularization theory revisited -- Christian Occident? -- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? -- Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age -- Visual seductions -- The problem of "Renaissance paganism" -- Image acts and visual culture -- The presence of images as visual practice -- Political consideration -- Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform -- Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia -- Conclusion: locations of knowledge -- Writing histories, narrating pasts -- Esoteric discourse and Western identities.

ISBN

• 9789004184220
• 9004184228

LCCN

2010001511

OCLC

• 500820571
• SCSB-12351658

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library