Overview
- Examines both the sources and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists
- Offers new perspectives on a key but neglected group of English thinkers
- Features an interdisciplinary focus
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 222)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Douglas Hedley is Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. He has previously held Fellowships at the Universities of Notre Dame (2103-14) Muenster (2017) and was visiting Professor at the University of McGill in 2018.
David Leech is a Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely on aspects of Cambridge Platonism, including the monograph “The Hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More’s Philosophy of Spirit and the Origins of Modern Atheism.” Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy
Editors: Douglas Hedley, David Leech
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22200-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22199-7Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22202-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22200-0Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 268
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Modern Philosophy