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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe : esoteric discourse and Western identities /

One characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralisma "a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.