Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western IdentitiesBRILL, 2010 - Broj stranica: 240 One characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralism a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion. Viewed from a structuralist perspective, esoteric discourse provides an analytical framework that helps to reveal genealogies of modern identities in a pluralistic competition of knowledge. Experiential philosophy, kabbalah, astrology, Hermeticism, philology, and early modern science are linked to knowledge claims that shaped the way in which Western culture defined itself. "Von Stuckrad s sophisticated and stimulating reevaluation of the place of esotericism in Western culture should be of great interest to anyone concerned with the complex religious, social, political, and intellectual developments that mark the transition from the medieval to the modern world. The dialogue he proposes between modern theories and ancient, medieval, and early modern texts raises important questions and offers further evidence that the nineteenth and twentieth century divisions between religion, magic, and science and between science, philosophy, and occultism have outlived their usefulness." Professor Allison P. Coudert Paul and Marie Castelfranco Chair in the Religious Studies Program University of California at Davis |
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Introduction | 3 |
From Singularization to Pluralism | 7 |
Christian Occident? | 13 |
The TwoFold Pluralism | 18 |
Chapter Two The Polemical Construction of Tradition | 25 |
The Construction of Prisca Theologia | 26 |
Genealogies of Wisdom | 30 |
Jewish Perspectives | 33 |
Universal Languages and the Quest for the Ursprache | 110 |
Astrology and Sacred History | 115 |
Christian Astrology | 126 |
Part Three Interferences | 135 |
Introduction | 137 |
Chapter Seven Scientific Encounters | 139 |
A Scholar Gone Mad? | 146 |
Natural Philosophy in an Apocalyptic Age | 152 |
Beyond Tradition | 41 |
Chapter Three Conceptualizing the Study of Esoteric Discourse | 43 |
Approaches to Esotericism | 45 |
Secrecy as Social Capital | 54 |
Discourses of Perfect Knowledge | 59 |
Part Two Shared Passions | 65 |
Introduction | 67 |
Wisdom beyond Demonstration | 71 |
Neoplatonism and Theurgy in Late Antiquity | 72 |
Experiential Knowledge in Suhrawardīs Illuminationist Philosophy | 82 |
Esoteric Hermeneutics | 89 |
The Textile of the Divine in Early Kabbalah | 93 |
Linguistic Ontologies in Christian Kabbalah | 103 |
Chapter Eight Visual Seductions | 157 |
The Problem of Renaissance Paganism | 158 |
Image Acts and Visual Culture | 163 |
The Presence of Images as Visual Practice | 168 |
Chapter Nine Political Consideration | 175 |
Hermeticism and Universal Reform | 177 |
Alsteds Encyclopaedia | 186 |
Locations of Knowledge | 195 |
Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities | 200 |
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