Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe (Record no. 186010)
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| fixed length control field | 03706nam a2200481 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 130.94 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Stuckrad, Kocku von, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Leiden ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of publisher | Brill, |
| Year of publication | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 240 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Brill's studies in intellectual history, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Occultism |
| Topical Term | Discourse analysis |
| Topical Term | Occultism |
| Topical Term | Group identity |
| Topical Term | Cultural pluralism |
| Topical Term | Social change |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10419836 |
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