Hermes in the Academy : ten years' study of Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam /
"Hermes in the academy" commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (GHF) at the University of Amsterdam. The center devotes itself to the study of Western esotericism, which includes topics such as Hermetic philosophy, Christian...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; PREFACE; Part 1. History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents: Origins and Development; The Birth of a Chair; Ten Years of Studying and Teaching Western Esotericism; Part 2. Glimpses of Research; The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism; Astrologia Hermetica: Astrology, Western Culture, and the Academy; The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects; Mathematical Esotericism: Some Perspectives on Renaissance Arithmology; Danish Esotericism in the 20th Century: The Case of Martinus
- Part 3. Studying Western Esotericism in AmsterdamOn First Looking into the Halls of Hermeticism; An Unlikely Love Affair: Plato, the Netherlands, and Life after Westotericism; Heterology in Amsterdam: The Academy Takes the Other Out to Dinner; The Copenhagen Connection; If You Seek; Part 4. Western Esotericism in International Perspective; From "the Hermetic Tradition" to "Western Esotericism"; From Paris to Amsterdam and Beyond: Origins and Development of a Collaboration; Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom
- From Talk about Esotericism to Esotericism Research: Remarks on the Prehistory and Development of a Research GroupSeven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism: Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair; Hermes and his Students in Amsterdam; CONTRIBUTORS; REGISTER