Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe : esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Kocku von Stuckrad.

• pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.

Ämnesord

Intellektuellt liv  (sao)

Occultism  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Intellectual life. (LCSH)

Discourse analysis  -- Europe. (LCSH)

Occultism  -- Europe -- History -- Sources. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Intellectual life -- Sources. (LCSH)

Group identity  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Cultural pluralism  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Social change  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Esoterism  -- historia -- Europa (sao)

Ockultism  -- historia -- Europa (sao)

Intellectual life  (LCSH)

Europe  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Religious life and customs. (LCSH)

Europa  -- historia (sao)

Genre

Källmaterial  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Blb Ockultism

Be-a Allmän idé- och lärdomshistoria: Europa

Klassifikation

BF1434.E85 (LCC)

130.94 (DDC)

Blb (kssb/8)

Be-a (kssb/8)