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  • Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China

    Appropriating the Dao by Pokorny, Lukas K.; Winter, Franz;

    The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 2 May 2024
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350289567
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 236x162x18 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • 710

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    Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.

    Positioned between eighteenth-century's mesmerism and intersections with the modern martial arts current, the contributions specifically centre on nineteenth and early twentieth-century occult appraisals and representations. This book opens up an under-explored area of research in
    the field of East-West interactions and the global history of religions.

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    Table of Contents:

    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 i??1?2liphas Li??1?2vi, 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 sii??1?2cle 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)
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