Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

Luc Brisson, Seamus O'Neill, Andrei Timotin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
9789004374973 (ISBN)

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Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers.

Luc Brisson is Senior Researcher (Emeritus) at CNRS, Paris. His works include How Philosophers Saved Myths (Chicago, 2004); Plato the Myth Maker (Chicago, 1999); Inventing the Universe, with W. Meyerstein (New York, 1995); Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Berkeley, 2002), and translations and commentaries on Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Seamus O’Neill is Associate Professor at The Memorial University of Newfoundland. His publications include “The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine,” in Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, ed. R. Arp and B. McCraw (Routledge, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on St. Augustine’s demonology. Andrei Timotin is Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy (ISEES). His publications include La démonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimōn de Platon aux derniers néoplatoniciens (Brill, 2012); Platonic Theories of Prayer, with John Dillon (Brill, 2016); and La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus (Brepols, 2017).

List of Contributors

Introduction

The Daimon and the Choice of Life in Plotinus’ Thought
Thomas Vidart

The Angels in Ancient Gnosis: Some Cases
Madeleine Scopello

Demons and Angels in the Chaldaean Oracles
Helmut Seng

What is a Daimon for Porphyry?
Luc Brisson

Porphyry on the Daimon, Birth and the Stars
Dorian G. Greenbaum

Daimones in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
Nilufer Akcay

Evil Demons in De Mysteriis
Assessing the Iamblichean Critique of Porphyry’s Demonology
Seamus O’Neill

Proclus’ Critique of Plotinus’ Demonology
Andrei Timotin

The Angels in Proclus: Messengers of the Gods
Luc Brisson

Ontology, Henadology, Angelology
The Neoplatonic Roots of Angelic Hierarchy
Ghislain Casas

Dionysius the Areopagite on Angels
Self-Constitution versus Constituting Gifts
Marilena Vlad

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 20
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	614 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-13	9789004374973 / 9789004374973
Zustand	Neuware