Platonism : Ficino to Foucault

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Platonism : Ficino to Foucault

edited by Valery Rees ... [et al.]

(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 320)

Brill, c2021

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The sixteen essays in this volume trace the development of Platonism in the history of Western thought, starting with the revival of the Platonic tradition in the early modern period that followed the rediscovery and translation of important Greek texts. Special attention is devoted to Marsilio Ficino's translations and commentaries; to the relationship between Platonism and Christianity; to the influence of Platonic metaphysics on the mystical tradition - in particular on Jacob Boehme and Emanuel Swedenborg; to the impact of idealism on the hermeneutical criticism of traditional philosophical categories and to the ways in which the so-called 'Critique of Modernity' promoted a new reading of the Platonic dialogues. The emphasis throughout is on demonstrating the theoretical and historical continuity of Platonism over the centuries. Contributors are: Laura Candiotto, Pierpaolo Ciccarelli, Anna Corrias, Francesca Maria Crasta, Eva del Soldato, Laura Follesa, Guido Giglioni, Nicholas Holland, Andrea Le Moli, Brunello Lotti, Cecilia Muratori, Arnold Oberhammer, Paula Oliveira e Silva, Valery Rees, Pasquale Terracciano, and Angelo Maria Vitale.

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Contents Introduction 1 Philosophy on the Defensive: Marsilio Ficino's Response in a Time of Religious Turmoil Valery Rees 2 Ficino, Plotinus, and the Chameleonic Soul Anna Corrias 3 Healing Rituals and Their Philosophical Significance in Marsilio Ficino's Philosophy Guido Giglioni 4 A Platonic Light Metaphysics between St. Augustine and Ficino: Girolamo Seripando's Quaestiones CIX De re philosophico-theologica Angelo Maria Vitale 5 The Letter of Lysis to Hipparchus in the Renaissance Eva Del Soldato 6 Niccolo Leonico Tomeo's Accounts of Veridical Dreams and the Idola of Synesius Nicholas Holland 7 The Platonic Stain: Origen, Philosophy and Censorship between the Renaissance and the Counter Reformation Pasquale Terracciano 8 Francisco de Hollanda on Artistic Creation, the Origin of Ideas, and Demiurgic Painting Paula Oliveira e Silva 9 'Platonic-Hermetic' Jacob Boehme, or: Is Boehme a Platonist? Cecilia Muratori 10 The Theory of Ideal Objects and Relations in the Cambridge Platonists (Rust, More, and Cudworth) Brunello Lotti 11 Platonism, Metaphysics, and Modern Science: Rudiger and Swedenborg Francesca Maria Crasta 12 Schelling and Plato: the Idea of the World-Soul in Schelling's Timaeus Laura Follesa 13 On the Phenomenological 'Reactivation' or 'Repetition' of Plato's Dialogues by Leo Strauss Pierpaolo Ciccarelli 14 Care of the Self and Politics: Michel Foucault, Heir of a Forgotten Plato? Laura Candiotto 15 Dialectic in Plato's Sophist and Derrida's 'Law of the Supplement of Copula' Arnold Oberhammer 16 Image and Copy in French Deconstruction of Platonism Andrea Le Moli Index

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