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Margaret R. Miles - Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome - 9780631212751 - V9780631212751
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Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome

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Description for Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome Paperback. Plotinus, the most profound philosopher of the third century CE, has been influential on Byzantine and Western Christianity, and Islam. This book offers an interpretation, which situates Plotinus's philosophical ideas in the context of society and culture in which those ideas developed. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Miles brings Plotinus' thought alive for the twenty-first century by relating it to present day concerns.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631212751
SKU
V9780631212751
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Margaret R. Miles
Margaret R. Miles is Dean and d Academic Vice-President of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and is President of the American Academy of Religion. She was formerly Bussey Professor of historical Theology at Harvard University. Her previous books include Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture, Carnal Knowing: female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian ... Read more

Reviews for Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome
"This book puts a new and provocative perspective on the culture and intellectual world of late antiquity. With her interest in the body on the one hand, and her interest in pagan philosophy alongside Christian thought on the other, Miles is also able to open up Plotinus' philosophy to our own postmodern times by relating the interest in the soul ... Read more

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