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Radical Platonism in Byzantium

Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon [Paperback]

by Niketas Siniossoglou

    • Author

      Niketas Siniossoglou

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      September 2016

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      Radical Platonism in Byzantium

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      Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but 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 the State, whose cause Plethon had himself championed in his two utopian Memoranda. Inspired by Plato, Plethon's secular utopianism and paganism emerge as the two sides of a single coin. On another level, the book challenges anti-essentialist scholarship that views paganism and Christianity as social and cultural constructions.

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      • Author

        Niketas Siniossoglou

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        September 2016

      • Weight

        541g

      • Page Count

        472

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 25 mm

      • ISBN

        9781316629598

      • ISBN-10

        1316629597

      • Eden Code

        4488584

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      • Author/Creator: Niketas Siniossoglou

      • ISBN: 9781316629598

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: September 2016

      • Weight: 541g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 25 mm

      • Eden Code: 4488584

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