03706nam a2200481 a 4500 ebr10419836 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100115s2010 ne sb 001 0 eng 2010001511 GBB022913 bnb 015484599 Uk 9789004184220 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004184228 (hardback : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)667292798 e------ BF1434.E85 S78 2010eb 130.94 22 Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966- Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe [electronic resource] : esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Kocku von Stuckrad. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. xiii, 240 p. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 186 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Occultism Europe History. Discourse analysis Europe. Occultism Europe History Sources. Group identity Europe History. Cultural pluralism Europe History. Social change Europe History. Europe Intellectual life. Europe Intellectual life Sources. Europe Social conditions. Europe Religious life and customs. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 186. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10419836 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 186010 186010