M. David Litwa (Melbourne Australian Catholic University)

Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought

Becoming Angels and Demons

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates posthuman transformation (becoming angels and demons) among poets, philosophers, and theologians of the ancient Mediterranean world. Brings together Hellenic, Jewish, Christian, and gnostic authors, and connects their visions of moral transformation to modern transhumanist visions of biotechnical enhancement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781108926058
• ISBN-10: 1108926053
• Artikelnr.: 63460423

Autorenporträt

M. David Litwa is Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. His publications include Iesus Deus (2014), Desiring Divinity (2016), Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge, 2018) and How the Gospels Became History (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction. Angels, daimones, and the modern thirst for transformation
1: Hesiod and daimonification in the Archaic and Classical periods
2. Empedocles as daimon
3. Plato and the moralization of daimonification
4. Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre
5. Moses angelified in Philo of Alexandria
6. Origen, angelification, and the angelified Jesus
7. Plotinus as a living daimon
8. The angelification of Zostrianos
Conclusion: Advent or apocalypse?