Revisioning Cambridge Platonism : sources and legacy / Douglas Hedley, David Leech, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedley, Douglas, editor.

Leech, David (Philosopher), editor.

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 222.

International archives of the history of ideas ; 222

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cambridge Platonists.

Platonists.

Philosophy, English--17th century.

Physical Description:

x, 268 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era. The contributors examine the sources of the Cambridge Platonists and discuss their take-up in the eighteenth-century. Readers will learn about the intellectual formation of this philosophical group as well as the reception their ideas received. Coverage also details how their work links to earlier Platonic traditions. This interdisciplinary collection explores a broad range of themes and an appropriately wide range of knowledge. It brings together an international team of scholars. They offer a broad combination of expertise from across the following disciplines: philosophy, Neoplatonic studies, religious studies, intellectual history, seventeenth-century literature, women's writing, and dissenting studies.The essays were originally presented at a series of workshops in Cambridge on the Cambridge Platonists funded by the AHRC."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Douglas Hedley and David Leech

Dii medioxumi and the place of theurgy in the philosophy of Henry More / Anna Corrias

Cambridge Platonism(s) : John Sherman and Peter Sterry / Eric Parker

'A philosopher at rRandome' : translating Jacob Bohme in seventeenth-century Cambridge / Cecilia Muratori

Plotinus in verses : the epic of emanation in Henry More's psychozoia / Guido Giglioni

The neoplatonic hermeneutics of Ralph Cudworth / Adrian Mihai

Cudworth and the English debate on the Trinity / Jan Rohls

'Think on these things' : Benjamin Whichcote and Henry Hallywell on Philippians 4:8 as a guide to deiformity / Marilyn A. Lewis

Giving Locke some latitude : Locke's theological influences from Great Tew to the Cambridge Platonists / Nathan Guy

Mixing politics with the pulpit : eternal immutable morality and Richard Price's political radicalism / Louise Hickman

'Have ye not heard that we cannot serve two masters?' : the Platonism of Mary Wollstonecraft / Sylvana Tomaselli

'This is not quite fair, Master More!' : Coleridge and the Cambridge Platonists / James Vigus

'A track pursuing not untrod before' : Wordsworth, Plato and the Cambridge Platonists / Graham Davidson

The legacy of a 'living library' : on the reception of John Smith / Derek A. Michaud

Between theodicy and apologetics : Plato as 'a human preface of the gospel' : Joseph de Maistre and Simone Weil in the wake of Cudworth / Philippe Barthelet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

3030221997

9783030221997

OCLC:

1101393575