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035 _a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419836
035 _a(OCoLC)667292798
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050 1 4 _aBF1434.E85
_bS78 2010eb
082 0 4 _a130.94
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100 1 _aStuckrad, Kocku von,
_d1966-
245 1 0 _aLocations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe
_h[electronic resource] :
_besoteric discourse and Western identities /
_cby Kocku von Stuckrad.
260 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2010.
300 _axiii, 240 p.
490 1 _aBrill's studies in intellectual history,
_x0920-8607 ;
_vv. 186
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aEsoteric 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aOccultism
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDiscourse analysis
_zEurope.
650 0 _aOccultism
_zEurope
_xHistory
_vSources.
650 0 _aGroup identity
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCultural pluralism
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSocial change
_zEurope
_xHistory.
651 0 _aEurope
_xIntellectual life.
651 0 _aEurope
_xIntellectual life
_vSources.
651 0 _aEurope
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aEurope
_xReligious life and customs.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aBrill's studies in intellectual history ;
_vv. 186.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10419836
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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