"This book explores the reception and appropriation of East Asian religious and philosophical notions, ideas, and patterns of thought within the Euro-American esoteric current from the 18th - 21st century. Chapters encompass research on the early phase of reception, pertaining to Daoism and the Yijing in the 19th century's Euro-American occult milieu, with additional attempts to locate tropes and patterns even earlier - that is, within the 18th century's mesmerism and figurism"--
"This book explores the reception and appropriation of East Asian religious and philosophical notions, ideas, and patterns of thought within the Euro-American esoteric current from the 18th - 21st century. Chapters encompass research on the early phase of reception, pertaining to Daoism and the Yijing in the 19th century's Euro-American occult milieu, with additional attempts to locate tropes and patterns even earlier - that is, within the 18th century's mesmerism and figurism"--
Lukas K. Pokorny is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Franz Winter is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Contributors China in the Euro-American Esoteric Imagination: Contouring a Lacuna Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna Austria) and Franz Winter (University of Graz Austria) 1. Daoism and Kung Fu as Occult Sciences: Historical Comparisons between Chinese Practices and Mesmerism Julian Strube (University of Vienna Austria) 2. Looking Out for Magic in Ancient China: The Yijing Its Trigrams and the Figurist Tradition in Éliphas Lévi Franz Winter (University of Graz Austria) 3. The Theosophical Daodejing: The Beginnings Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna Austria) 4. The Daoist Who Wasn't: Albert de Pouvourville Matgioi Nguyen Van Cang and the Problem of Indochinese Masters in fin de siècle Occultism Davide Marino (University of Vienna Austria) 5. Turning Further East: C. H. A. Bjerregaard and the Esoteric Enthusiasm for Daoism Johan Nilsson (Lund University Sweden) 6. Do What Dao Wilt: The Integration of East Asian Concepts and Practices into Aleister Crowley's Thelema Gordan Djurdjevic (Independent Scholar Canada) 7. An Exoticism of Rationality and Social Order? Examining the East-West Binary in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Esoteric Representations of China Johan Nilsson (Lund University Sweden) 8. The Archetypal Dao: A Look at C. G. Jung's Reception of Chinese Thought Karl Baier (University of Vienna Austria) 9. Be Water My Friend: Esotericism Martial Arts and Entangled Histories Tao Thykier Makeeff (University of Stavanger Norway) Index
List of Contributors China in the Euro-American Esoteric Imagination: Contouring a Lacuna Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna Austria) and Franz Winter (University of Graz Austria) 1. Daoism and Kung Fu as Occult Sciences: Historical Comparisons between Chinese Practices and Mesmerism Julian Strube (University of Vienna Austria) 2. Looking Out for Magic in Ancient China: The Yijing Its Trigrams and the Figurist Tradition in Éliphas Lévi Franz Winter (University of Graz Austria) 3. The Theosophical Daodejing: The Beginnings Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna Austria) 4. The Daoist Who Wasn't: Albert de Pouvourville Matgioi Nguyen Van Cang and the Problem of Indochinese Masters in fin de siècle Occultism Davide Marino (University of Vienna Austria) 5. Turning Further East: C. H. A. Bjerregaard and the Esoteric Enthusiasm for Daoism Johan Nilsson (Lund University Sweden) 6. Do What Dao Wilt: The Integration of East Asian Concepts and Practices into Aleister Crowley's Thelema Gordan Djurdjevic (Independent Scholar Canada) 7. An Exoticism of Rationality and Social Order? Examining the East-West Binary in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Esoteric Representations of China Johan Nilsson (Lund University Sweden) 8. The Archetypal Dao: A Look at C. G. Jung's Reception of Chinese Thought Karl Baier (University of Vienna Austria) 9. Be Water My Friend: Esotericism Martial Arts and Entangled Histories Tao Thykier Makeeff (University of Stavanger Norway) Index
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