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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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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