LEADER 05146nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910827365703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-78699-7 010 $a9786612786990 010 $a90-04-18423-6 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004184220.i-240 035 $a(CKB)2670000000046169 035 $a(EBL)583773 035 $a(OCoLC)667292798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000422265 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289419 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422265 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10418920 035 $a(PQKB)10111315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC583773 035 $a(OCoLC)500820571 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004184237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL583773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419836 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278699 035 $a(PPN)170741834 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000046169 100 $a20100115d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLocations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe $eesoteric discourse and Western identities /$fby Kocku von Stuckrad 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 225 1 $aBrill's studies in intellectual history,$x0920-8607 ;$vv. 186 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-18422-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEsoteric 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. 330 $aOne characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralism?a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion. Viewed from a structuralist perspective, ?esoteric discourse? provides an analytical framework that helps to reveal genealogies of modern identities in a pluralistic competition of knowledge. Experiential philosophy, kabbalah, astrology, Hermeticism, philology, and early modern science are linked to knowledge claims that shaped the way in which Western culture defined itself. 410 0$aBrill's studies in intellectual history ;$vv. 186. 606 $aOccultism$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aDiscourse analysis$zEurope 606 $aOccultism$zEurope$xHistory$vSources 606 $aGroup identity$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aCultural pluralism$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zEurope$xHistory 607 $aEurope$xIntellectual life 607 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$vSources 607 $aEurope$xSocial conditions 607 $aEurope$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aOccultism$xHistory. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis 615 0$aOccultism$xHistory 615 0$aGroup identity$xHistory. 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 676 $a130.94 700 $aStuckrad$b Kocku von$f1966-$0601355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827365703321 996 $aLocations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe$94094568 997 $aUNINA