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The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times (Cornell Paperbacks)

Full title: The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times (Cornell Paperbacks)
ISBN: 9780801477492
ISBN 10: 0801477492
Authors: Ebeling, Florian
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Edition: Reprint
Num. pages: 176
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2011

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Synopsis

Foreword / Jan Assmann -- Introduction -- Prehistory And Early History Of A Phantasm -- The Middle Ages : Christian Theology And Antediluvian Magic -- Renaissance : Primeval Wisdom For A New World -- Seventeenth Century : High Point And Decline -- Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries : Between Occultism And Enlightenment -- Twentieth Century : Systems And Esoterica. Florian Ebeling ; Foreword By Jan Assmann ; Translated From The German By David Lorton. Originally Published As Das Geheimnis Des Hermes Trismegistos By Florian Ebeling ©verlag C.h. Beck Ohg, München 2005--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [151]-152) And Index.