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.