Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Herausgeber: O'Brien, Carl Séan; Dillon, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. This wide-ranging work provides a reliable guide to its various facets developed in antiquity before exploring its role in the theological debates of the Middle Ages and philosophical speculations of the Italian Renaissance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423229
• ISBN-10: 1108423221
• Artikelnr.: 63656690

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: platonic love Carl O'Brien, John Dillon
Part I. Love in Plato: 1. Plato on love Vasilis Politis
2. The selfishness of platonic love? Carl O'Brien
3. Love and rhetoric as types of psychagôgia Marina McCoy
4. Plato on the love of wisdom Elisabeth S. Belfiore
Part II. Development of Platonic Love in Antiquity: 5. Plutarch: expanding the horizons of platonic love Frederick E. Brenk
6. Love in Plotinus' thought Dominic J. O'Meara
7. A platonist 'ars amatoria' John Dillon
8. Desire and love in Augustine Jan-Ivar Lindén
Part III. Love and Metaphysics during the Middle Ages: 9. Divine love and platonic beauty in Dionysius the Areopagite Andrew Louth
10. Love in the thought of John Scotus Eriugena Max Rohstock
11. Thomas Aquinas on the connatural, the supernatural, love, and charity Kevin L. Flannery S.J.
Part IV. Platonic Love during the Renaissance: 12. Human and divine love in Marsilio Ficino Paul Richard Blum
13. Marsilio Ficino and Leone Ebreo on beauty Maryanne Cline Horowitz
14. Pico della Mirandola on platonic love John Dillon
15. The Contra-Amorem tradition in the Renaissance W. R. Albury
16. Castiglione and platonic love Reinier Leushuis
17. Platonic love in Renaissance discussions of friendship Marc D. Schachter.