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Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon
Niketas Siniossoglou
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Paperback. A groundbreaking approach to late Byzantine intellectual history and the philosophy of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3H; HBLA; HPCA; HRC; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to philosophy and intellectual history, exploring the thought-world 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 disputes over 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 ... Read more
Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to philosophy and intellectual history, exploring the thought-world 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 disputes over 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316629598
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V9781316629598
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About Niketas Siniossoglou
Niketas Siniossoglou is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the author of Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance (Cambridge, 2008).
Reviews for Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon
"This stimulating book will offer much food for thought, even to those readers who, in the end, will not be prepared to accept all of Siniossoglou’s conclusions."
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