Wasserstrom Religion after Religion

Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos
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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wasserstrom, Steven M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Author's Note xi

Introduction 3

PART 1: Religion after Religion 21

Chapter 1. Eranos and the "History of Religions" 23

Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37

Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52

Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67

PART II: Poetics 83

Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85

Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100

Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112

PART III: Politics 125

Chapter 8. Collective Renovatio 127

Chapter 9. The Idea of Incognito: Authority and Its Occultation According to Henry Corbin 145

PART IV.- History 157

Chapter 10. Mystic Historicities 159

Chapter 11. The Chiliastic Practice of Islamic Studies According to Henry Corbin 172

Chapter 12. Psychoanalysis in Reverse 183

PART V: Ethics 201

Chapter 13. Uses of the Androgyne in the History of Religions 203

Chapter 14. Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" 215

Chapter 15. On the Suspension of the Ethical 225

Conclusion 237

Abbreviations Used in the Notes 251

Notes 255

Index 355

Über Autor(innen)

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.