Is it rational approach to the study of esotericism possible?
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2016-6-136-161
Abstract
Using the example of the works of a well-known British scholar, Frances Yates, the present author analyses a rational attitude to the so-called “Western esotericism”. Yates was among the first researchers to study the esoteric (“hermeticist-cubalistic” by her terminology) element in Renaissance and early Modern time culture. She has devoted four books to this topic. Yates’s approach is considered through the prism of a few key themes: esotericism and the scientific revolution, esotericism and artistic creativity, the history of John Dee. The author places Yates’s ideas in the general context of a rational view of Western esotericism in the second half of the twentieth century.
About the Author
Pavel Nosachev
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Nosachev P. Is it rational approach to the study of esotericism possible? RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2016;(6):136-161. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2016-6-136-161
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