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Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition (Paperback)
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Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition
consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and
2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the
medieval Platonic tradition. Three essays provide general surveys
of the transmission of late ancient thought to the Middle Ages with
emphasis on the ancient authors, the themes, and their medieval
readers, respectively. The remaining essays deal especially with
certain major figures in the Platonic tradition, including
pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Iohannes Scottus Eriugena, and
Nicholas of Cusa. The principal conceptual aim of the collection is
to establish the primacy of hermeneutics within the philosophical
program developed by these authors: in other words, to argue that
their philosophical activity, substantially albeit not exclusively,
consists of the reading and evaluation of authoritative texts. The
essays also argue that the role of hermeneutics varies in the
course of the tradition between being a means towards the
development of metaphysical theory and being an integral component
of metaphysics itself. In addition, such changes in the status and
application of hermeneutics to metaphysics are shown to be
accompanied by a shift from emphasizing the connection between
logic and philosophy to emphasizing that between rhetoric and
philosophy. The collection of essays fills in a lacuna in the
history of philosophy in general between the fifth and the
fifteenth centuries. It also initiates a dialogue between the
metaphysical hermeneutics of medieval Platonism and certain modern
theories of hermeneutics, structuralism, and deconstruction. The
book will be of special interest to students of the classical
tradition in western thought, and more generally to students of
medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature. (CS1094).
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