Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture
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Esotericism and the academy : rejected knowledge in western culture
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-447) and indexes
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内容説明
Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that challenged the foundations of biblical religion and Greek rationality. Expelled from the academy on the basis of Protestant and Enlightenment polemics, these traditions have come to be perceived as the Other by which academics define their identity to the present day. Hanegraaff grounds his discussion in a meticulous study of primary and secondary sources, taking the reader on an exciting intellectual voyage from the fifteenth century to the present day and asking what implications the forgotten history of exclusion has for established textbook narratives of religion, philosophy and science.
目次
- Introduction: hic sunt dracones
- 1. The history of truth: recovering ancient wisdom
- 2. The history of error: exorcizing Paganism
- 3. The error of history: imagining the Occult
- 4. The truth of history: entering the Academy
- Conclusions: restoring memory.
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