Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture / Wouter J. Hanegraaff.

Author/creator Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Descriptionx, 468 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 380-447) and indexes.
LCCN 2011045460
ISBN9780521196215 (hardback)
ISBN0521196213 (hardback)

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