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"Esotericism and the academy" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 - Cambridge, it has 468 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Esotericism and the academy
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 468
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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  • Publish Location: Cambridge

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"Esotericism and the academy" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- The history of truth: recovering ancient wisdom
  • 2- Competing macrohistories
  • 3- Platonic orientalism
  • 4- The Christian apologists
  • 5- The wise man from the east: George Gemistos Plethon
  • 6- The Platonic theologian: Marsilio Ficino
  • 7- Secret moses: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Christian kabbalah
  • 8- The universal Catholic: Agostino Steuco
  • 9- The end of a cycle
  • 10- The history of error: exorcizing paganism
  • 11- Against the pagans
  • 12- Against the fathers
  • 13- The anti-apologist: Jacob Thomasius
  • 14- The heresiologist: Ehregott Daniel Colberg
  • 15- The pietist reaction
  • 16- The birth of religionism: Gottfried Arnold
  • 17- Enlightenment and eclipse
  • 18- The historian: Jacob Brucker
  • 19- The parting of the ways
  • 20- The error of history: imagining the occult
  • 21- Tainted terminologies 1: superstition
  • 22- Tainted terminologies 2: magic
  • 23- Tainted terminologies 3: occult
  • 24- Alchemy between science and religion
  • 25- The organization of secrecy
  • 26- The occult marketplace
  • 27- Elemental fiction
  • 28- Compendia of rejected knowledge
  • 29- Secret traditions and hidden histories
  • 30- The waste land
  • 31- The truth of history: entering the academy
  • 32- Magnetic historiography: German romantic Mesmerism and evolutionism
  • 33- The archetype of Eranos: Carl Gustav Jung and the western unconscious
  • 34- Eranos and religionism: Scholem, Corbin, Eliade
  • 35- The return of the historians: from Peuckert and Thorndike to Frances Yates
  • 36- Antoine Faivre and western esotericism
  • 37- Esotericism in the academy
  • 38- Conclusion: restoring memory.

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