Table of Contents
PREFACE
Part 1. History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents: Origins and Development
The Birth of a Chair
Ten Years of Studying and Teaching Western Esotericism
Part 2. Glimpses of Research
The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism
Astrologia Hermetica: Astrology, Western Culture, and the Academy
The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects
Mathematical Esotericism: Some Perspectives on Renaissance Arithmology
Danish Esotericism in the 20th Century: The Case of Martinus
Part 3. Studying Western Esotericism in Amsterdam
On First Looking into the Halls of Hermeticism
An Unlikely Love Affair: Plato, the Netherlands, and Life after Westotericism
Heterology in Amsterdam: The Academy Takes the Other Out to Dinner
The Copenhagen Connection
If You Seek
Part 4. Western Esotericism in International Perspective
From “the Hermetic Tradition” to “Western Esotericism”
From Paris to Amsterdam and Beyond: Origins and Development of a Collaboration
Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom
From Talk about Esotericism to Esotericism Research: Remarks on the Prehistory and Development of a Research Group
Seven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism: Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair
Hermes and his Students in Amsterdam
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