Book Details
Orange Code:93000
Paperback:422 pages
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1. Proclus' life, works, and education of the soul2. Proclus as exegete3. Proclus as theologian4. "Dionysius the Areopagite"5. The Liber de causis6. Michael Psellos7. Eleventh- to twelfth-century Byzantium8. Ioane Petritsi9. The University of Paris in the thirteenth century10. Francesco Patrizi
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This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (ca 500-1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studied in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major influence on the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a substantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclus' reception. This is followed by the essays of more than a dozen of the world's leading authorities in the various specific areas covered.
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