From Iamblichus to Eriugena: The Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition

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From Iamblichus to Eriugena: The Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition is written by Stephen Gersh and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004755578 (ISBN 10) and 9789004755574 (ISBN 13).

From Iamblichus to Eriugena described the metaphysical and theological system of later (post-Plotinian) Neoplatonism in one of its most important pagan forms and in one of its most significant Christian forms, and especially strove to depict the conceptual analogies and doctrinal intersections between these two often competing sets of ideas. Beginning the survey with Iamblichus of Chalcis in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and ending with Iohannes Scottus Eriugena in the later Carolingian Era, it posited two pagan Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius, and two Christian theologians, pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor, as the most crucial historical intermediates. The reprint of this book includes a new introduction that provides a meta-critical analysis of the historical and conceptual method pursued in the original work and a bibliographical discussion of the author's more recent publications on the same or similar topics. The volume is completed by a new and expanded bibliography of the subject as a whole.