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Esotericism and the Academy

Религиоведение

Автор: Ханеграаф Воутер

Язык: английский

Год: 2012

Издатель: Cambridge University Press

Город: New York

Статус: Закончена

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Аннотация

In this book the author makes no attempt to provide a map of the domain, or write its history. Instead, he writes the history of how scholars and intellectuals have imagined it, ever since the time that its contours first began to be drawn by those who claimed to know of its existence. It is only through their eyes that we will be introduced to it here, and it will quickly become apparent that many of those who have confidently described its nature – sometimes as a lost paradise, sometimes as a dark realm filled with demons, or a resort of fools – have been projecting their own hopes or fears onto it, or have just been repeating what others said about it. But no matter how extravagant the claims that have been made about this continent, one thing is clear: it has always been considered the domain of the Other.