Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture /
The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.