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13Plato's Parmenides and its heritage (edited book)Brill. 2011.v. 1. From Plato and the old academy to middle platonism -- v. 2. Middle platonic and gnostic texts.
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10Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy, and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature : Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson (edited book)Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu. 2006.The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson.
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21Performing conscience. Thoreau, political action, and the plea for John brownPolitical Theory 33 (4): 448-471. 2005.Does Henry Thoreau have a positive politics? Depending on how one conceives of politics, answers will vary. Hannah Arendt famously portrayed Thoreau’s commitment to the sanctity of individual conscience as distinctly unpolitical. More recent commentators grant that Thoreau has a politics, but they characterize it as profoundly negative in character. This essay argues that Thoreau indeed sponsors a positive politics—a politics of performing conscience. The performance of conscience before an audi…Read more
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17Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics (review)International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 7 (2): 229-233. 2013.
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13Gnosticism, Platonism and the late ancient world: essays in honour of John D. Turner (edited book)Brill. 2013.Part I. Gnosticism and other religious movements of antiquity -- part II. Crossing boundaries : Gnosticism and Platonism.
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Plotinus and the Gnostics : opposed heirs of PlatoIn Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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13Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: From Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period (edited book)Academia Verlag. 2012.This book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among different philosophical/religious traditions, primarily Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu, and suggests many new ways of thinking about the relation between these two fields or disciplines that have …Read more
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11Religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions: from Antiquity to the early Medieval period (edited book)Academia. 2012.This book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among different philosophical/religious traditions, primarily Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu, and suggests many new ways of thinking about the relation between these two fields or disciplines that have …Read more
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20Platonisms: ancient, modern, and postmodern (edited book)Brill. 2007.By questioning the modern categories of Plato and Platonism, this book offers new ways of reading the Platonic dialogues and the many traditions that resonate ...
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Kearney, Nebraska, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |