Preface and Acknowledgments ix Author's Note xi Introduction 3 PART 1: Religion after Religion 21 Chapter 1. Eranos and the "History of Religions" 23 Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37 Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52 Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67 PART II: Poetics 83 Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85 Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100 Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112 PART III: Politics 125 Chapter 8. Collective Renovatio 127 Chapter 9. The Idea of Incognito: Authority and Its Occultation According to Henry Corbin 145 PART IV.- History 157 Chapter 10. Mystic Historicities 159 Chapter 11. The Chiliastic Practice of Islamic Studies According to Henry Corbin 172 Chapter 12. Psychoanalysis in Reverse 183 PART V: Ethics 201 Chapter 13. Uses of the Androgyne in the History of Religions 203 Chapter 14. Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" 215 Chapter 15. On the Suspension of the Ethical 225 Conclusion 237 Abbreviations Used in the Notes 251 Notes 255 Index 355
By focusing on Scholem, Corbin, and Eliade, Steven Wasserstrom has brought to light many of the tacit assumptions that have informed the study of religious culture in our time. Particularly important is his attentiveness to the primary emphasis placed on the symbolic imagination in these three seminal thinkers and the impact that this orientation had on their assessment of history, politics, and ethics. Wasserstrom has produced a study that will have major implications for the way that historians of religion think about their own discipline. -- Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University
Steven M. Wasserstrom is the Moe and Izetta Tonkon Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His book Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton) was given the Award for Excellence in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion.
"A powerful and evocative work for mature and informed readers..."--Library Journal "Religion after Religion is rich with quotes from--as well as observations about--Eliade, Henry Corbin, and Gershom Scholem... it recombines them in a masterful, insightful performance that evokes in the sympathetic reader ... wondering admiration... Virtually anyone could learn a great deal by reading this book."--Journal of Religion
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