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| Named Person: | Gershom Scholem; Mircea Eliade; Henry Corbin; Henry Corbin; Gershom Scholem; Gershom Gerhard Scholem; Mircea Eliade; Henry Corbin; Mircea Eliade; Henry Corbin; Gershom Scholem |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven M Wasserstrom |
| ISBN: | 0691005397 9780691005393 0691005400 9780691005409 |
| OCLC Number: | 40979924 |
| Description: | xii, 368 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Religion after Religion -- Eranos and the "History of Religions" -- Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation -- Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation -- Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay -- Poetics -- On Symbols and Symbolizing -- Aesthetic Solutions -- A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought -- Politics -- Collective Renovatio -- The Idea of Incognito: Authority and Its Occultation According to Henry Corbin -- History -- Mystic Historicities -- The Chiliastic Practice of Islamic Studies According to Henry Corbin -- Psychoanalysis in Reverse -- Ethics -- Uses of the Androgyne in the History of Religions -- Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" -- On the Suspension of the Ethical. |
| Responsibility: | Steven M. Wasserstrom. |
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Abstract:
Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin are the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam. This book compares the paths taken by these thinkers, exploring how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history.
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A powerful and evocative work for mature and informed readers... Library Journal Religion after Religion is rich with quotes from--as well as observations about--Eliade, Henry Corbin, and Gershom Scholem... it recombines them in a masterful, insightful performance that evokes in the sympathetic reader ... wondering admiration... Virtually anyone could learn a great deal by reading this book. Journal of Religion Read more...
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- Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
- Scholem, Gershom, -- 1897-1982.
- Eliade, Mircea, -- 1907-1986.
- Corbin, Henry.
- Corbin, Henry, -- d. 1978.
- Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, -- 1897-
- Religion -- Philosophie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Godsdienstwetenschap.
- Wetenschapsbeoefening.
- Orientalistes -- 20e siècle.
- Philosophie de la religion -- 20e siècle.
- Psychologie et religion.
- Eliade, Mircea.
- Scholem, Gershom.
- Jüdische Philosophie.
