Occult East Asia
Euro-American Perspectives
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- ISBN 9789004746176
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book explores key actors and themes in the Euro-American esoteric reception history of East Asia. It traces how western occultists and esotericists appropriated textual icons such as the Daodejing and Yijing, and figures such as Fuxi, Laozi, and Confucius.
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This book examines key actors and themes in the Euro-American esoteric reception history of East Asia. It traces how Western occultists and esotericists have engaged with East Asia, appropriating textual icons such as the Daodejing and Yijing, or figures such as Fuxi, Laozi, and Confucius into their perennialist cosmos. The resulting amalgam of globally negotiated tropes, or “Occult East Asia,” has co-shaped the imagery and appreciation of East Asia in a range of discourses that extend far beyond alternative religious circles.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introducing Occult East Asia
Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter
1 Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation
Julian Strube
2 Introducing “the Heavenly Empire of China” (le Céleste Empire de la Chine) China versus India in the Quest for an Ancient Model Society in Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre
Franz Winter
3 The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse
Lukas K. Pokorny
4 An Alternative View on Chinese Cultural and Religious History: Esoteric Readings of the Mythical Figure of Fuxi
Franz Winter
5 “The Way, the Truth, and the Light”: Franz Hartmann’s Daodejing
Lukas K. Pokorny
6 Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial
Davide Marino
7 China in the Anthroposophical Imaginary
Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer
8 The Path to Gnosis: A Microhistory
Davide Marino
9 “If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao”: Politics as “Eastern Wisdom” in Aleister Crowley’s Reception of the Daodejing
Johan Nilsson
10 The Tao of Julius Evola
Davide Marino
Index
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