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  1. Radical platonism in Byzantium
    illumination and utopia in Gemistos Plethon
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-1452). It... mehr

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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    "Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-1452). It argues that Plethon brought to their fulfilment latent tendencies among Byzantine humanists towards a distinctive anti-Christian and pagan outlook. His magnum opus, the pagan Nomoi, was meant to provide an alternative to and escape-route from the polarity of the Orthodoxy of Gregory Palamas and Thomism. It was also a groundbreaking reaction to the bankruptcy of a pre-existing humanist agenda and to aborted attempts at the secularisation of the State, whose cause Plethon had himself championed in his two utopian Memoranda. Inspired by Plato, Plethon's secular utopianism and paganism emerge as the two sides of a single coin. On another level, the book challenges anti-essentialist scholarship that views paganism and Christianity as social and cultural constructions"--

     

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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Beteiligt: Georgius
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781107013032
    RVK Klassifikation: CD 3063
    Schriftenreihe: Cambridge classical studies
    Schlagworte: Georgius; Byzantinisches Reich; Platonismus; Ideengeschichte;
    Weitere Schlagworte: Gemistus Plethon, George (active 15th century); Gemistus Plethon, George (active 15th century): Nomōn syngraphēs ta sōzomena
    Umfang: XVI, 454 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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.