Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-
Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / [electronic resource] : by Kocku von Stuckrad. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - xiii, 240 p. ; 25 cm. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 186 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBB022913 bnb
Uk
Occultism--History.--Europe
Discourse analysis--Europe.
Occultism--History--Europe--Sources.
Group identity--History.--Europe
Cultural pluralism--History.--Europe
Social change--History.--Europe
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Intellectual life--Sources.
Europe--Social conditions.
Europe--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BF1434.E85 / S78 2010eb
130.94
Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / [electronic resource] : by Kocku von Stuckrad. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - xiii, 240 p. ; 25 cm. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 186 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBB022913 bnb
Uk
Occultism--History.--Europe
Discourse analysis--Europe.
Occultism--History--Europe--Sources.
Group identity--History.--Europe
Cultural pluralism--History.--Europe
Social change--History.--Europe
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe--Intellectual life--Sources.
Europe--Social conditions.
Europe--Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
BF1434.E85 / S78 2010eb
130.94