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42Recent Attempts to Define a Dionysian Political TheoryAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (4): 639-660. 2008.The Dionysian corpus makes virtually no statement about the authority of kings or the structure of nations, but it has nevertheless repeatedly been the subjectof political analysis. Several scholars have recently sketched out a Dionysian politics by drawing analogies between the Dionysian church and the city, and between the Dionysian bishop and the emperor. These analogies are of limited usefulness. They show that Dionysius does employ Platonic political language to describe the ecclesiastical …Read more
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33Sacred place in early medieval NeoplatonismPalgrave-Macmillan. 2004.The twentieth century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively postmodern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in t…Read more
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24The Yi River Commentary on the Book of ChangesYale University Press. 2019.This book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes, or Yijing, perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China. The Yijing first appeared as a divination text in Zhou-dynasty China and later became a work of cosmology, philosophy, and political theory as commentators supplied it with new meanings. While many English translations of the Yijing itself exist, none are paired with a historical commentary as thorough and methodical as that written by the Confucian scho…Read more
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2"'Unusquisque en suo sensu abundet': Human perspective in Eriugena's" PeriphyseonDionysius 16 123-140. 1998.
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10Principle and Place: Complementary Concepts in Confucian Yijing CommentaryPhilosophy East and West 66 (3): 861-882. 2016.The classical Western concept of place points in two directions: toward isolating things from one another and toward articulating their connections. Aristotle’s famous definition of a thing’s place as the limit of its surrounding body, which serves to isolate the thing from all but its immediate surroundings, sits side-by-side in the Physics with his theory of natural places, according to which things have places only in relation to each other.1 A thing’s natural place may be at the center—as th…Read more
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2The Drunken Epibole of Plotinus and its Reappearance in the Work of Dionysius the AreopagiteDionysius 23 117-138. 2005.
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