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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe : esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Kocku von Stuckrad.
Van Pelt Library BF1434.E85 S78 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 186
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occultism--Europe--History.
- Occultism.
- Social change.
- History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Group identity.
- Intellectual life.
- Discourse analysis.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Europe.
- Discourse analysis--Europe.
- Occultism--Europe--History--Sources.
- Europe--Intellectual life--Sources.
- Group identity--Europe--History.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Cultural pluralism--Europe--History.
- Social change--Europe--History.
- Europe--Religious life and customs.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 240 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004184220
- 9004184228
- OCLC:
- 500820571
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