Neoplatonic Demons and Angels - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004374973 ISBN 13 : 9789004374973

Editeur : Brill, 2018

Synopsis

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Luc Brisson is Senior Researcher (Emeritus) at CNRS, Paris. His works include How Philosophers Saved Myths (Chicago, 2004); Plato the Myth Maker (Chicago, 1999); Inventing the Universe, with W. Meyerstein (New York, 1995); Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Berkeley, 2002), and translations and commentaries on Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus.

Seamus ONeill is Associate Professor at The Memorial University of Newfoundland. His publications include The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine, in Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, ed. R. Arp and B. McCraw (Routledge, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on St. Augustines demonology.

Andrei Timotin is Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy (ISEES). His publications include La démonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimn de Platon aux derniers néoplatoniciens (Brill, 2012); Platonic Theories of Prayer, with John Dillon (Brill, 2016); and La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus (Brepols, 2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004374973
• ISBN 13: 9789004374973
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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