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Stephen Gersh
This first complete study of Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plotinus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficino's late philosophy and also as an essential companion to…
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Stephen Gersh engages here with the Platonic tradition in European thought from the 4th to the 14th century. The essays discuss important figures in the history of Platonism such as…
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…
This book consists of twelve essays dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition. It will be of special interest to students of the classical tradition…
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Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant voice in Byzantine thought, influential in the later western Middle Ages, and a major figure in the revival of…
This book will help readers understand and define ‘Neoplatonism’, the school of thought founded by Plotinus in the third century. Using a series of case-studies from Italian, French, English, and…
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It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called ‘Platonic’ and ‘Neoplatonic’ played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between…
It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called Platonic and Neoplatonic played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between…
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.
In this volume, an international group of scholars investigate the meaning of idealism across the ages. Fourteen essays trace this concept from Plato, the Roman Stoics, Plotinus, and Augustine through…
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. The I Tatti edition of…
Stephen E. Gersh
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…
The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that…
