Overview
- Explains Platonism during the European Enlightenment
- Questions whether the term "Neoplatonism" should be discontinued
- Discusses the role of key figures in the 18th century, especially Johann Jakob
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 227)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Eighteenth Century Philosophy and Theology
- Thomas Taylor’s Dissent
- Middle Platonism
- Dethronement of Porphyry’s Vita Plotini
- Late Ancient Platonism
- Age of Reason
- Heumann’s Dethronement of Porphyry’s Vita Plotini
- Biographical Model in History of Philosophy
- Division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
- Views on Platonic Philosophy
About this book
This work synthesizes work previously published in leading journals in the field into a coherent narrative that has a distinctive focus on Germany while also being aware of a broader European dimension. It argues that the German Lutheran Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764) marginalized the biographical approach to past philosophy and paved the way for the German Lutheran Johann Jacob Brucker’s (1696-1770) influential method for the writing of past philosophy, centred on depersonalised and abstract systems of philosophy. The work offers an authoritative and engaging account of how late ancient Platonism, Plotinus in particular, was interpreted in eighteenth-century Germany according to these new precepts. Moreover, it reveals the Lutheran religious assumptions of this new approach to past philosophy, which underpinned the works of Heumann and Brucker, but also influential reviews that rejected the English Plato translator Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) and his understanding and evaluation of late ancient Platonism.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought
Authors: Leo Catana
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20511-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20510-2Published: 09 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20513-3Published: 09 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20511-9Published: 30 September 2019
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 175
Topics: History of Philosophy, Protestantism and Lutheranism, Classical Philosophy, History of Early Modern Europe, Historiography and Method