Esotericism and the academy
Subtitle: rejected knowledge in western culture
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521196215
Subjects: Occultism; Cabala; Psychology; Cabala and Christianity; Renaissance Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of truth: recovering ancient wisdom; title: Competing macrohistories; title: Platonic orientalism; title: The Christian apologists; title: The wise man from the east: George Gemistos Plethon; title: The Platonic theologian: Marsilio Ficino; title: Secret moses: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Christian kabbalah; title: The universal Catholic: Agostino Steuco; title: The end of a cycle; title: The history of error: exorcizing paganism; title: Against the pagans; title: Against the fathers; title: The anti-apologist: Jacob Thomasius; title: The heresiologist: Ehregott Daniel Colberg; title: The pietist reaction; title: The birth of religionism: Gottfried Arnold; title: Enlightenment and eclipse; title: The historian: Jacob Brucker; title: The parting of the ways; title: The error of history: imagining the occult; title: Tainted terminologies 1: superstition; title: Tainted terminologies 2: magic; title: Tainted terminologies 3: occult; title: Alchemy between science and religion; title: The organization of secrecy; title: The occult marketplace; title: Elemental fiction; title: Compendia of rejected knowledge; title: Secret traditions and hidden histories; title: The waste land; title: The truth of history: entering the academy; title: Magnetic historiography: German romantic Mesmerism and evolutionism; title: The archetype of Eranos: Carl Gustav Jung and the western unconscious; title: Eranos and religionism: Scholem, Corbin, Eliade; title: The return of the historians: from Peuckert and Thorndike to Frances Yates; title: Antoine Faivre and western esotericism; title: Esotericism in the academy; title: Conclusion: restoring memory.