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Title Hermes in the Academy : ten years' study of Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam / Wouter Hanegraaff, Joyce Pijnenburg, eds
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (163 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; PREFACE; Part 1. History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents: Origins and Development; The Birth of a Chair; Ten Years of Studying and Teaching Western Esotericism; Part 2. Glimpses of Research; The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism; Astrologia Hermetica: Astrology, Western Culture, and the Academy; The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects; Mathematical Esotericism: Some Perspectives on Renaissance Arithmology; Danish Esotericism in the 20th Century: The Case of Martinus
Part 3. Studying Western Esotericism in AmsterdamOn First Looking into the Halls of Hermeticism; An Unlikely Love Affair: Plato, the Netherlands, and Life after Westotericism; Heterology in Amsterdam: The Academy Takes the Other Out to Dinner; The Copenhagen Connection; If You Seek; Part 4. Western Esotericism in International Perspective; From "the Hermetic Tradition" to "Western Esotericism"; From Paris to Amsterdam and Beyond: Origins and Development of a Collaboration; Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom
From Talk about Esotericism to Esotericism Research: Remarks on the Prehistory and Development of a Research GroupSeven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism: Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair; Hermes and his Students in Amsterdam; CONTRIBUTORS; REGISTER
Summary "Hermes in the academy" commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (GHF) at the University of Amsterdam. The center devotes itself to the study of Western esotericism, which includes topics such as Hermetic philosophy, Christian kabbalah and occultism. This volume shows how, over the past ten years, the GHF has developed into the leading international center for research and teaching in this domain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Universiteit van Amsterdam. Leerstoelgroep Geschiedenis van de hermetische filosofie en verwante stromingen -- History
Philosophy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
Hermetism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Philosophy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Netherlands -- Amsterdam
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
Pijnenburg, Joyce.
ISBN 9789048510597
9048510597
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9781282401990
9786612401992
6612401990