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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790827103321

Autore

Gersh Stephen

Titolo

Being different : more Neoplatonism after Derrida / / by Stephen Gersh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2014

ISBN

90-04-26164-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, , 1871-188X ; ; volume 16

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts

Disciplina

141/.2

Soggetti

Neoplatonism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter / Stephen Gersh -- Neoplatonic Compulsions / Stephen Gersh -- Bridging the Gap / Stephen Gersh -- Prayer(s) / Stephen Gersh -- Hearing Voices / Stephen Gersh -- From the One to the Blank / Stephen Gersh -- Philosophy [Space] Literature / Stephen Gersh -- Bibliography / Stephen Gersh -- Index of Names / Stephen Gersh.

Sommario/riassunto

Having now benefited from viable editions and studies of many of the most important authors within the Neoplatonic tradition of western philosophy, it is time for us to read these materials more actively in terms of the philosophical developments of the late twentieth century that provide the greatest opportunities for intertextual exploration. The hermeneutical project that beckons was begun in Stephen Gersh's Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006) and is raised to a higher power in his present volume. Here a new course is charted in the reading of such ancient authors as Proclus, Damascius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Meister Eckhart through a critical engagement with the deconstructions of pagan and Christian Neoplatonic texts in the writings of Jacques Derrida.