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" Assessing Borrowing "


Document Type : AL
Record Number : 1064763
Doc. No : LA108392
Call No : ‭10.1163/15700593-02001001‬
Language of Document : English
Main Entry : Joseph Azize
Title & Author : Assessing Borrowing [Article]\ Joseph Azize
Publication Statement : Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical : Aries
Date : 2020
Volume/ Issue Number : 20/1
Page No : 1–30
Abstract : The history of esoteric currents cannot be intrinsically closed to scholarly research and query. Here, we shall examine just one question: that of methodology in examining the sources of esoteric systems. We shall take but one case study: that of Tobias Churton’s recent book-length efforts to “deconstruct” George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and his teaching. Like others before him, he traces diverse aspects of Gurdjieff’s teaching to different sources, viewing Gurdjieff as a synthesiser, who disguised his debt to Western Esotericism and presented it as his “Fourth Way”. How can such a theory be evaluated? Is it possible to draw up a canon of principles for assessing borrowing? In evaluating borrowing, does the whole of a teaching possess a significance over and above the parts? What is the significance of the phenomenon of borrowing? After noting some results of research on inter-cultural borrowings in ancient mythology, I make suggestions for sound methodology. The history of esoteric currents cannot be intrinsically closed to scholarly research and query. Here, we shall examine just one question: that of methodology in examining the sources of esoteric systems. We shall take but one case study: that of Tobias Churton’s recent book-length efforts to “deconstruct” George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and his teaching. Like others before him, he traces diverse aspects of Gurdjieff’s teaching to different sources, viewing Gurdjieff as a synthesiser, who disguised his debt to Western Esotericism and presented it as his “Fourth Way”. How can such a theory be evaluated? Is it possible to draw up a canon of principles for assessing borrowing? In evaluating borrowing, does the whole of a teaching possess a significance over and above the parts? What is the significance of the phenomenon of borrowing? After noting some results of research on inter-cultural borrowings in ancient mythology, I make suggestions for sound methodology.
Descriptor : cultural borrowing
Descriptor : esoteric tradition
Descriptor : Fourth Way
Descriptor : gnosticism
Descriptor : Gurdjieff
Descriptor : P.D. Ouspensky
Descriptor : Tobias Churton
Descriptor : Yezidis
Location & Call number : ‭10.1163/15700593-02001001‬
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