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Our Divine Double / Charles M. Stang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stang, Charles M., 1974- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy)--Middle East.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Twins--Mythology--Middle East.
- Twins.
- Twins--Religious aspects.
- Mysticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Mysticism.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Narcissus and His Double
- 1. Reading Plato’s Many Doubles
- 2. Thomas, Who Is Called “Twin”
- 3. Syzygies, Twins, and Mirrors
- 4. Mani and His Twin - Companion
- 5. Plotinus and the Doubled Intellect
- 6. Whither the Divine Double?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674970182
- 0674970187
- 9780674970168
- 0674970160
- OCLC:
- 944346998
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