Book ID: CBB001201627

Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010)

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Stuckrad, Kocku von (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xiv + 242 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

One characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralism---a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion. Viewed from a structuralist perspective, `esoteric discourse' provides an analytical framework that helps to reveal genealogies of modern identities in a pluralistic competition of knowledge. Experiential philosophy, kabbalah, astrology, Hermeticism, philology, and early modern science are linked to knowledge claims that shaped the way in which Western culture defined itself.

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Description Includes chapters on neoplatonism and theurgy, experiential knowledge in Suhraward, humanistic philology and cosmology, Arabic and Christian astrology, and occult science and natural philosophy.


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Review Stolzenberg, Daniel (2013) Review of "Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 1009-1012). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Petroff, Valery V.
Bertolini, Manuel
Porreca, David
Attrell, Dan
Stuckrad, Kocku von
Sannino, Antonella
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Astrology
Science and religion
Philosophy
Cosmology
Astronomy
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
Renaissance
17th century
Modern
Ancient
Places
Europe
Italy
England
Florence (Italy)
Greece
France
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
Experimentalists
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