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; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion; title: Europe and the Christendom narrative; title: 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: 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: 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.