| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Occultism -- History.
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Occultism. |
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History. |
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Philosophy, Renaissance.
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Philosophy, Renaissance. |
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Cabala -- History.
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Cabala. |
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Cabala and Christianity.
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Cabala and Christianity. |
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Psychology -- History.
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Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the academy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521196215 (DLC) 2011045460 (OCoLC)753630601 |
| ISBN |
9781139223546 (electronic book) |
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1139223542 (electronic book) |
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9781139220118 |
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113922011X |
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9781139048064 (electronic book) |
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1139048066 (electronic book) |
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9780521196215 |
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0521196213 |
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9781139217019 |
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