Niketas Siniossoglou (University of Cambridge)

Radical Platonism in Byzantium

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9781316629598
• ISBN-10: 1316629597
• Artikelnr.: 45804325

Autorenporträt

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.