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By Olav Hammer, Kocku Stuckrad

ISBN-10: 9004162577

ISBN-13: 9789004162570

In its old improvement from past due antiquity to the current, western esotericism has time and again been the difficulty of polemical discourse. This quantity engages the polemical constructions that underlie either the identities inside and the debate approximately esoteric currents in ecu background. From Jewish and Christian kabbalah via heretical discourse and interconfessional polemics in early modernity to the legitimization of esoteric id in glossy tradition, the 12 chapters, followed by means of an editors' creation, supply a cornucopia of proper instances which are interpreted in a framework of polemical discourse and 'Othering'. This quantity sheds new gentle at the eventually polemical constitution of western esotericism and therefore opens new vistas for additional study into esoteric discourse.

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35 See also Boaz Huss’ contribution to the present volume. 36 On the process of “othering”, see BonÀl, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, 1–3. He notes: ‘The history of the Jews of Italy in the Renaissance is the history of the encounter between a minority determined to perpetuate its Otherness and a majority equally bent on its assimilation’ (p. 3). See also Silberstein, ‘Others Within and Others Without’. 14 kocku von stuckrad in medieval Andalusia. He talks of ‘interconfessional circles’ that made possible an intensive exchange of thoughts between those two groups, an exchange that was fostered not least by the fact that both groups shared a common enemy—Christianity.

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