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Interpreting Proclus : from antiquity to the renaissance
\"This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (ca 500-1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studied in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major influence on the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a substantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclus' reception. This is followed by the essays of more than a dozen of the world's leading authorities in the various specific areas covered\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Being Different
Having now benefited from viable editions and studies of many of the most important authors within the Neoplatonic tradition of western philosophy, it is time for us to read these materials more actively in terms of the philosophical developments of the late twentieth century that provide the greatest opportunities for intertextual exploration. The hermeneutical project that beckons was begun in Stephen Gersh's Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006) and is raised to a higher power in his present volume. Here a new course is charted in the reading of such ancient authors as Proclus, Damascius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Meister Eckhart through a critical engagement with the deconstructions of pagan and Christian Neoplatonic texts in the writings of Jacques Derrida.
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The First Principles of Latin Neoplatonism: Augustine, Macrobius, Boethius
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This essay attempts to provide more evidence for the notions that there actually is a Latin (as opposed to a Greek) Neoplatonic tradition in late antiquity, that this tradition includes a systematic theory of first principles, and that this tradition and theory are influential in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The method of the essay is intended to be novel in that, instead of examining authors or works in a chronological sequence and attempting to isolate doctrines in the traditional manner, it proceeds by identifying certain philosophemes (a concept borrowed from structuralist and post-structuralist thought and here signifying certain minimal units from which philosophical \"systems\" can be constructed), and then studying the combination and re-combination of these philosophemes consciously and unconsciously by a selection of important medieval writers. These philosophemes occur in Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram; Augustine, De Trinitate; Augustine, De Vera Religione; Augustine, De Musica; Macrobius, Commentarius in Somnium Scipionis; and Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. The sampling of medieval authors who use these philosophemes includes Eriugena, William of Conches, Thierry of Chartres, and Nicholas of Cusa.
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Being Different
Stephen Gersh's Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida continues his earlier project (Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006)) of reading the philosophy of late antiquity in a critical encounter with Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Platonism.
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Neoplatonism after Derrida : parallelograms
This volume deals with the relation between Derrida and Neoplatonism (ancient, patristic, medieval), presenting that relation in the form not only of the actual reading of Neoplatonism by Derrida but also of a hypothetical reading of Derrida by Neoplatonism.
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Medieval and Renaissance humanism : rhetoric, representation and reform
This collection of essays explores in an innovative way the humanist aspects of medieval and post-medieval intellectual life and their multifarious appropriation during the early modern and modern period.
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L’Ordo Naturalis of Primordial Causes. Eriugena’s Transformation of the Dionysian Doctrine of Divine Names
In Books I and II of Periphyseon , Eriugena mentions the “primordial causes” (corresponding to the second species of nature) without specifying any order of priority among them. In response to a question about this posed by the Alumnus, this omission is rectified near the beginning of Book III. Initially, Eriugena follows the authority of Dionysius and argues that, since the divine names in Dionysius’s De Divinis Nominibus correspond to his own primordial causes, he is permitted to adopt the order of the Dionysian treatise. However, Eriugena quickly shifts to rational demonstration. Here, he first establishes certain general principles governing the ordering of the primordial causes. This section of the argument makes extensive use of the analogy of a geometrical sphere in order to argue for the striking conclusion: there is no perceptible order either at the beginning or at the end of the causes’ procession into created things. Such a conclusion is possible because of what one might term the idealistic, non-discursive, and theophanic aspects of Eriugena’s theory. Secondly, Eriugena explains a specific case of the ordering of the primordial causes, and argues that the primordial cause of Goodness precedes the primordial cause of Being. The Alumnus expresses satisfaction with his teacher’s explanation and summarizes what he has learned, although certain features of his summary suggest that he has not grasped the theory’s more subtle features. A postscript to this essay briefly considers the question of whether or not reminiscences of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae have influenced Eriugena’s discussion of this question.
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