Hermes in the Academy : Ten Years' Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam

Table of Contents - 6[-]PREFACE - 8[-]Part 1. History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents: Origins and Development - 10[-]The Birth of a Chair - 12[-]Ten Years of Studying and Teaching Western Esotericism - 18[-]Part 2. Glimpses of Research - 32[-]The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism - 34[-]Astrologia Hermetica: Astrology, Western Culture, and the Academy - 51[-]The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects - 60[-]Mathematical Esotericism: Some Perspectives on Renaissance Arithmology - 76[-]Danish Esotericism in the 20th Century: The Case of Martinus - 92[-]Part 3. Studying Western Esotericism in Amsterdam - 104[-]On First Looking into the Halls of Hermeticism - 106[-]An Unlikely Love Affair: Plato, the Netherlands, and Life after Westotericism - 108[-]Heterology in Amsterdam: The Academy Takes the Other Out to Dinner - 110[-]The Copenhagen Connection - 112[-]If You Seek - 114[-]Part 4. Western Esotericism in International Perspective - 116[-]From -the Hermetic Tradition to -Western Esotericism - 118[-]From Paris to Amsterdam and Beyond: Origins and Development of a Collaboration - 124[-]Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom - 130[-]From Talk about Esotericism to Esotericism Research: Remarks on the Prehistory and Development of a Research Group - 136[-]Seven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism: Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair - 144[-]Hermes and his Students in Amsterdam - 150[-]CONTRIBUTORS - 158[-]REGISTER - 160