Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe
Subtitle: esoteric discourse and Western identities
By: by Kocku von Stuckrad.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 186
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789004184220
Subjects: Occultism -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Intellectual life; Discourse analysis -- Europe; Occultism -- Europe -- History -- Sources; Europe -- Intellectual life -- Sources; Group identity -- Europe -- History; Cultural pluralism -- Europe -- History; Social change -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Social conditions; Europe -- Religious life and customs
Genres: Sources
Description: The contents of this book cover Europe and the Christendom narrative, the polemical construction of tradition, genealogies of wisdom, Jewish perspectives, conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse, and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion; title: Europe and the Christendom narrative : from singularization to pluralism; title: The secularization theory revisited; title: Christian Occident?; title: The two-fold pluralism; title: The polemical construction of tradition; title: The construction of Prisca Theologia; title: Genealogies of wisdom; title: Jewish perspectives; title: Beyond tradition; title: Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse; title: Approaches to esotericism; title: Secrecy as social capital; title: Discourses of perfect knowledge; title: pt. 2. Shared passions; title: The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration; title: Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity; title: Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy; title: The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics; title: The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words; title: The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah; title: Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah; title: Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache; title: The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history; title: Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology; title: Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology; title: pt. 3. Interferences; title: Scientific encounters; title: "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited; title: John Dee : a scholar gone mad?; title: Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age; title: Visual seductions; title: The problem of "Renaissance paganism"; title: Image acts and visual culture; title: The presence of images as visual practice; title: Political consideration; title: Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform; title: Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia; title: Conclusion: Locations of knowledge; title: Writing histories, narrating pasts; title: Esoteric discourse and Western identities.