Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon
Cambridge University Press (2011)
| Abstract | Machine generated contents note: 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical | |||||||||
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| Call number | B785.P564.S56 2011 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 1107013038 9781107013032 | |||||||||
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