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Esotericism and the Academy - Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Esotericism and the Academy - Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs
with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and
philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their
relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the
neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have
tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late
antiquity that challenged the foundations of biblical religion and
Greek rationality. Expelled from the academy on the basis of
Protestant and Enlightenment polemics, these traditions have come
to be perceived as the Other by which academics define their
identity to the present day. Hanegraaff grounds his discussion in a
meticulous study of primary and secondary sources, taking the
reader on an exciting intellectual voyage from the fifteenth
century to the present day and asking what implications the
forgotten history of exclusion has for established textbook
narratives of religion, philosophy and science.
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