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Antinomianism
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Apocalypticism
Appearance and Reality
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Being and Time
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Demonology
Demythologization
Disenchantment
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Eranos
Ernst Cassirer
Existentialism
Felix culpa
Franz Rosenzweig
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Georges Bataille
Gershom Scholem
God
God is dead
Henry Corbin
Hermann Cohen
Jacob Frank
Jewish mysticism
Johann Georg Hamann
John D. Caputo
Joseph Margolis
Judaism
Julius Evola
Kabbalah
Karl Barth
Kashf al-Asrar
Lecture
Life Against Death
Lucifer and Prometheus
Manichaeism
Mansur Al-Hallaj
Martin Buber
Martin Heidegger
Martinism
Mircea Eliade
Moses and Monotheism
Mysticism
Nae Ionescu
On Religion
People of the Book
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Politique
Postchristianity
Religion
Romanticism
Rudolf Otto
Sacred history
Scholasticism
Scholem
Scientism
Secularization
Soren Kierkegaard
Spirituality
The Philosopher
The Soul of the World
Theology
Theosophy
Thought
Tom Rockmore
Walter Benjamin
Western esotericism
Wilhelm Dilthey
Product details
- ISBN 9780691005409
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam--converged and ultimately revolutionized how people thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung's famous Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition. In this, the first book ever to compare the paths taken by these thinkers, Steven Wasserstrom explores how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history and by extolling the role of myth and mysticism. The most controversial aspect of their theory of religion, Wasserstrom argues, is that it minimized the binding character of moral law associated with monotheism.
The author focuses on the lectures delivered by Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin to the Eranos participants, but also shows how these scholars generated broader interest in their ideas through radio talks, poetry, novels, short stories, autobiographies, and interviews. He analyzes their conception of religion from a broadly integrated, comparative perspective, sets their distinctive thinking into historical and intellectual context, and interprets the striking success of their approaches.
Steven M. Wasserstrom is the Moe and Izetta Tonkon Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His book Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton) was given the Award for Excellence in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion.
