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Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture / Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occultism--History.
- Occultism.
- History.
- Philosophy, Renaissance.
- Cabala--History.
- Cabala.
- Cabala and Christianity.
- Psychology--History.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 468 pages. ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521196215
- 0521196213
- OCLC:
- 753630601
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