Untertitel:: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Herausgeber:: Douglas Hedley / David Leech
Verlag:: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen:: 01.01.2020
Seitenanzahl:: 268
EAN:: 9783030222000
Format:: eBook
Schutz:: Dig. Wass.

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Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 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.<div>The essays were originally presented at a series of workshops in Cambridge on the Cambridge Platonists funded by the AHRC.<div><p></p><p></p></div></div>