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Platonic love from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Carl Séan O'Brien, John Dillon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Platonic love in literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by subsequent thinkers in antiquity, entered the theological debates of the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the reception of Neoplatonism and the etiquette of romantic relationships during the Italian Renaissance. In this wide-ranging reference work, a leading team of international specialists examines the Platonic distinction between higher and lower forms of eros, the role of the higher form in the ascent of the soul and the concept of Beauty. They also treat the possibilities for friendship and interpersonal love in a Platonic framework, as well as the relationship between love, rhetoric and wisdom. Subsequent developments are explored in Plutarch, Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ficino, della Mirandola, Castiglione and the contra amorem tradition.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Platonic Love
- Love in Plato and its Reception in Antiquity: The Transcendental Aspect of Love
- Love and Metaphysics during the Middle Ages
- Platonic Love in the Renaissance
- Part I Love in Plato
- Chapter 1 Plato on Love
- Introduction
- The Concept of Eros
- The Symposium
- The Phaedrus
- Chapter 2 The Selfishness of Platonic Love?
- Love as Utility
- Absence of Interpersonal Love?
- The Selfishness of Love in the Phaedrus?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Love and Rhetoric as Types of Psychagogia
- Chapter 4 Plato on the Love of Wisdom
- Part II Development of Platonic Love in Antiquity
- Chapter 5 Plutarch: Expanding the Horizons of Platonic Love
- Some Methodological Questions
- Advice to a Bride and Groom
- On Isis and Osiris
- The Dialogue on Love
- Chapter 6 Love in Plotinus' Thought
- The Human Experience of Love
- Earthly Loves
- Soul's Love
- Loving Intellect
- The One is Love
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7 A Platonist 'Ars Amatoria'
- Chapter 8 Desire and Love in Augustine
- Amor Dei
- Presence
- Dualism
- Natural Embodiment
- Desire, Love and Moral Theology
- The Ontology and Epistemology of Love and Desire
- Augustine and Aristotle
- Love as Participation in the Eternal
- Quid autem amo, cum te amo?
- Concluding Remarks
- Part III Love and Metaphysics during the Middle Ages
- Chapter 9 Divine Love and Platonic Beauty in Dionysius the Areopagite
- Chapter 10 Love in the Thought of John Scotus Eriugena
- Transcendent Love
- Love between Transcendence and Immanence
- Love as Immanent Principle
- Conclusion.
- Chapter 11 Thomas Aquinas on the Connatural, the Supernatural, Love and Charity
- Love and Connaturality
- Participation in Love
- Charity in the Human Soul
- Part IV Platonic Love during the Renaissance
- Chapter 12 Human and Divine Love in Marsilio Ficino
- Chapter 13 Marsilio Ficino and Leone Ebreo on Beauty
- The Different Structures of Ficino's De amore and Leone's Dialoghi d'amore
- Plotinus and the Middle Stoics/Middle Academics in Ficino
- The Influence of Aesthetic Theory on Ficino: Concinnitas and Measurement
- Beauty and Virtue
- Lecherous Behaviour of Alcibiades in Plato and of Philo in Leone
- Influence
- Chapter 14 Pico della Mirandola on Platonic Love
- Chapter 15 The Contra-Amorem Tradition in the Renaissance
- Platonic Love in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Contra-Amorem Treatises in the Renaissance
- Platina's De Amore
- Fregoso's Anteros
- Interactions between Platonic Love and Contra-Amorem Discourses
- Chapter 16 Castiglione and Platonic Love
- Platonic Love in Early Cinquecento Italy
- Old and Young Lovers
- Sensual Love as Fury
- Between Ascent and Courtly Praxis: The Kiss
- Bembo's Contemplative Ideal
- Chapter 17 Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Locorum.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-53009-5
- 1-108-53435-X
- 1-108-52559-8
- OCLC:
- 1343896967
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