Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
Author:   Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
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Pages:   480
Publication Date:   06 March 2014
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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture


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Author:   Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781107680975


ISBN 10:   1107680972
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   06 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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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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Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), and a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alongside numerous articles, he is the author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (1996, 1998); Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (2005, with Ruud M. Bouthoorn) and Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven (2007). He has also co-edited seven collective volumes, including the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2005) and Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (2011, with Jeffrey J. Kripal). His latest work is Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012).

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