Antoine Faivre

Antoine Faivre ( born June 5, 1934 in Reims ) is a French scholar of religion.

Faivre had until his retirement in 2002, a professor of the history of esoteric and mystical movements of modern history at the Section des sciences religieuses, the Religious Studies Department of the École pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne in Paris, held the first of its kind by far four departments worldwide. The others are located at the University of Amsterdam ( Wouter J. Hanegraaff ), at the University of Exeter ( Nicholas Goodrick - Clarke) and at the Pontifical University Angelicum in the Vatican (Michael Foot ).

Since 1962 Faivre has published numerous books on esotericism and adjacent areas. He is CESNUR director in France.

Faivre is the editor of Cahiers de l' Hermétisme and Bibliothèque de l' Hermétisme and co-editor of Aries - The Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism.

Selections

  • Les Vampires. Essai historique et critique littéraire, Paris 1962
  • Kirchberger et l' illuminisme du dix- huitième siècle, Nijhoff, The Hague 1966
  • Eckartshausen et la théosophie chrétienne, Klincksieck, Paris 1969
  • L' esoterisme au XVIIIe siècle en France et en Allemagne, Seghers, Paris 1973
  • Mystique, théosophes et Illuminés au siècle des lumières, Olms, Hildesheim 1976
  • Epochs of nature mysticism. Hermetic tradition in scientific progress (as editors, with Rolf Christian Zimmermann), Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1979
  • Accès de l' ésotérisme occidental, 2 volumes, Gallimard, Paris, 1986 and 1996 (access to Western Esotericism and Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism, State University of New York, Albany NY 1994 and 2000, paperback edition the second tape 2008)
  • Toison d'or et Alchemy, Archè, Milan 1990 ( engl. The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, State University of New York, Albany NY 1993)
  • L' esoterisme, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1992; third revised edition 2003; translated into 7 languages, including German: Mysticism, Aurum, Brunswick 1996 and esotericism at a glance - Secret History of Western thought, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001
  • Modern Esoteric Spirituality ( ed., with Jacob Needleman ), Crossroads, New York 1992
  • The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus ( Joscelyn Godwin with ), Phanes Press, Grand Rapids 1995
  • Philosophie de la nature - Physique sacrée et théosophie XVIIIe - XIXe siècles, Albin Michel, Paris 1996
  • Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (ed. with Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jean -Pierre Brach ), Brill, Leiden 2006
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