Religion after Religion : Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos.
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,...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- Part 1. Religion after Religion
- Chapter 1. Eranos and the "History of Religions"
- Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation
- Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation
- Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay
- Part II. Poetics
- Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing
- Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions
- Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought
- Part III. Politics
- Chapter 8. Collective Renovatio
- Chapter 9. The Idea of Incognito: Authority and Its Occultation According to Henry Corbin
- Part IV. History
- Chapter 10. Mystic Historicities
- Chapter 11. The Chiliastic Practice of Islamic Studies According to Henry Corbin
- Chapter 12. Psychoanalysis in Reverse
- Part V. Ethics
- Chapter 13. Uses of the Androgyne in the History of Religions
- Chapter 14. Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin"
- Chapter 15. On the Suspension of the Ethical
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Index