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.
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 Amsterdam, On 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 Group, Seven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism:
Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair, Hermes and
his Students in Amsterdam, CONTRIBUTORS, REGISTER.
Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.
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