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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

Esotericism and the Academy

by Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Wouter J. Hanegraaff's major study of how Western intellectual culture rejected esotericism and constructed it as its other. He traces the history of the category from Renaissance ideas of ancient wisdom through Protestant polemics against paganism and Enlightenment critiques to the invention of the occult as a field of rejected knowledge. It is a landmark in the historiography of esotericism and essential for advanced students.

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