Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition / edited by Michael Erler, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, Jan Erik Hessler, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, Federico M. Petrucci, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy ; with the collaboration of Michael McOsker, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erler, Michael, editor.

Petrucci, Federico M., 1985- editor.

Hessler, Jan Erik, editor.

McOsker, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Plato--Influence.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-92245-7

1-108-91568-X

1-108-92159-0