Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history,
v. 186 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10419836 |
Table of Contents:
- Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion
- Europe and the Christendom narrative
- From singularization to pluralism
- The secularization theory revisited
- Christian Occident?
- The two-fold pluralism
- The polemical construction of tradition
- The construction of Prisca Theologia
- Genealogies of wisdom
- Jewish perspectives
- Beyond tradition
- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse
- Approaches to esotericism
- Secrecy as social capital
- Discourses of perfect knowledge
- Shared passions
- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration
- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity
- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy
- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics
- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words
- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah
- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah
- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache
- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history
- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology
- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology
- Interferences
- Scientific encounters
- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited
- John Dee : a scholar gone mad?
- Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age
- Visual seductions
- The problem of "Renaissance paganism"
- Image acts and visual culture
- The presence of images as visual practice
- Political consideration
- Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform
- Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia
- Conclusion: locations of knowledge
- Writing histories, narrating pasts
- Esoteric discourse and Western identities.