Radical Platonism in Byzantium - Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon

Informationen zum Autor Niketas Siniossoglou is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the author of Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance (Cambridge, 2008). Klappentext A groundbreaking approach to late Byzantine intellectual history and the philosophy of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon. Zusammenfassung This book advances a revisionist approach towards the clash between humanism and Christian Orthodoxy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that led to the secular utopianism and paganism of visionary Platonist! Gemistos Plethon. An important read for those interested in ancient and medieval philosophy! Byzantine studies and the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Plethon and the notion of Paganism; Part I. Lost Rings of the Platonist Golden Chain: 1. Underground Platonism in Byzantium; 2. The rise of the Byzantine Illuminati; 3. The Plethon affair; Part II. The Elements of Pagan Platonism: 4. Epistemic optimism; 5. Pagan ontology; 6. Symbolic theology: the mythologising of Platonic ontology; Part III. Mistra versus Athos: 7. Intellectual and spiritual utopias; Part IV. The Path of Ulysses and the Path of Abraham: 8. Conclusion; Epilogue: 'Spinozism before Spinoza', or the pagan roots of modernity.

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• Authors: Niketas Siniossoglou, Niketas (University of Cambridge) Siniossoglou, Siniossoglou Niketas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9781107013032
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01303-2
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Ancient, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Christianity, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient religions & mythologies, Byzantine Empire, Ancient religions and Mythologies