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​Ésotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: 

Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre

edited with Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin

and Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron

Peeter: Louvain 2001. xii + 948 pp.

ISBN: 90-429-0955-2 (b) / 2-87723-541-6 (fr.)

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This large Festschrift in four languages (English, German, French, Italian) was offered in 2001 to the foundational scholar of Western esotericism Antoine Faivre. It consists of five parts: (1) Alchemy, Hermetism, Kabbalah; (2) German Romanticism, Naturphilosophie, Christian Theosophy; (3) Freemasonry, Perennialism & Traditionalism, Sects and Secret Societies; (4) Imagination, imaginative, imaginal; (5) Methodological perspectives in the history of esotericism.

Contributors:

Jean-Pierre Brach, Reinhard Breymayer, Roelof van den Broek, Richard Caron, Allison P. Coudert, Roger Dachez, Allen G. Debus, Pierre Deghaye, John Patrick Deveney, Claude-Gilbert Dubois, Roland Edighoffer, Dietrich von Engelhardt, Jacques Fabry, Claude Gagnon, Maurice de Gandillac, Helmut Gebelein, R.A. Gilbert, Joscelyn Godwin, Frank Greiner, Hans Thomas Hakl, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Maurice-Ruben Haroun, Moshe Idel, Massimo Introvigne, Jean-Pierre Laurent, Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre, Didier Kahn, Wallace Kirsop, Stanton J. Linden, Pierre Lory, Jean Marigny, Jean-François Marquet, Sylvain Matton, Jean-François Mayer, Christopher McIntosh, Gilles Ménégaldo, John F. Moffitt, Pierre Mollier, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, Marco Pasi, Charles Porset, Emile Poulat, Pierre A. Riffard, James B. Robinson, Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, James A. Santucci, Heinrich Schipperges, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Mirko Sladek, Jan Snoek, Ivan Strenski, Joachim Telle, Frédérick Tristan, Arthur Versluis, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Gerhard Wehr, Jane Williams-Hogan, Thomas Willard, Jean-Jacques Wunenburger.

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