Plotinus' Legacy (eBook, ePUB)

The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era
Redaktion: Gersh, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The extensive influence of Plotinus, the third-century founder of 'Neoplatonism', on intellectual thought from the Renaissance to the modern era has never been systematically explored. This collection of new essays fills the gap in the scholarship, thereby casting a spotlight on a current of intellectual history that is inherently significant. The essays take the form of a series of case-studies on major figures in the history of Neoplatonism, ranging from Marsilio Ficino to Henri-Louis Bergson and moving through Italian, French, English, and German philosophical traditions. They bring clarity to the terms 'Platonism' and 'Neoplatonism', which are frequently invoked by historians but often only partially understood, and provide fresh perspectives on well-known issues including the rise of 'mechanical philosophy' in the sixteenth century and the relation between philosophy and Romanticism in the nineteenth century. The volume will be important for readers interested in the history of thought in the early-modern and modern ages.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108244626
• Artikelnr.: 57075992

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stephen Gersh; Part I. The Italian Renaissance: 1. Marsilio
Ficino as commentator on Plotinus: some case studies Stephen Gersh; 2.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on virtue, happiness and magic Brian
Copenhaver; Part II. Sixteenth-Century France: 3. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
and Charles de Bovelles on Platonism, Theurgy, and intellectual difficulty
Richard J. Oosterhoff; 4. Symphorien Champier on medicine, theology and
politics Guido Giglioni; Part III. The 'Cambridge Platonists': 5. Henry
More and Descartes David Leech; 6. Ralph Cudworth as interpreter of
Plotinus Douglas Hedley; 7. John Smith on the immortality of the soul Derek
A. Michaud; Part IV. German Romanticism: 8. Schelling and Plotinus Thomas
Leinkauf; 9. Hegel's programmatic recourse to the ancient philosophy of
intellect Jens Halfwassen; Part V. The Twentieth and Twenty-First
Centuries: 10. Henri-Louis Bergson and Plotinus Wayne J. Hankey; 11.
Plotinus and modern scholarship: from Ficino to the twenty-first century
Kevin Corrigan.