| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
The history of truth: recovering ancient wisdom -- Competing macrohistories -- Platonic orientalism -- The Christian apologists -- The wise man from the east: George Gemistos Plethon -- The Platonic theologian: Marsilio Ficino -- Secret moses: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Christian kabbalah -- The universal Catholic: Agostino Steuco -- The end of a cycle -- The history of error: exorcizing paganism -- Against the pagans -- Against the fathers -- The anti-apologist: Jacob Thomasius -- The heresiologist: Ehregott Daniel Colberg -- The pietist reaction -- The birth of religionism: Gottfried Arnold -- Enlightenment and eclipse -- The historian: Jacob Brucker -- The parting of the ways -- The error of history: imagining the occult -- Tainted terminologies 1: superstition -- Tainted terminologies 2: magic -- Tainted terminologies 3: occult -- Alchemy between science and religion -- The organization of secrecy -- The occult marketplace -- Elemental fiction -- Compendia of rejected knowledge -- Secret traditions and hidden histories -- The waste land -- The truth of history: entering the academy -- Magnetic historiography: German romantic Mesmerism and evolutionism -- The archetype of Eranos: Carl Gustav Jung and the western unconscious -- Eranos and religionism: Scholem, Corbin, Eliade -- The return of the historians: from Peuckert and Thorndike to Frances Yates -- Antoine Faivre and western esotericism -- Esotericism in the academy -- Conclusion: restoring memory |
| Summary |
The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Occultism -- History
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Philosophy, Renaissance.
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Cabala -- History
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Cabala and Christianity.
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Psychology -- History
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Occultism -- history
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Religious Philosophies -- history
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Magic -- history
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Christianity -- history
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Parapsychology -- history
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History, Medieval
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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History, Modern 1601-
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Mysticism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Occultism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Reference.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural.
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Medicine, Medieval
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Cabala
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Cabala and Christianity
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Occultism
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Philosophy, Renaissance
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Psychology
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Alchemie
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Esoterik
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Okkultismus
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Philosophie
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Theologie
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Esoterik.
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Okkultismus.
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Wissenschaft.
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Geistesgeschichte.
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Esoterism -- historia.
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Kabbala -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139223546 |
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1139223542 |
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9781139220118 |
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113922011X |
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9781139048064 |
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1139048066 |
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9781107680975 |
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1107680972 |
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