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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

Western Esotericism

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge

by Kocku von Stuckrad · Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (trans.)

A short history of Western esotericism from antiquity to the present by the German scholar Kocku von Stuckrad. It proposes studying esotericism as a discourse of claims to higher knowledge rather than as a fixed set of characteristics, an influential alternative to Faivre's model.

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