Being Different : More Neoplatonism after Derrida.
Title:
Being Different : More Neoplatonism after Derrida.
Author:
Gersh, Stephen E.
ISBN:
9789004261648
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Series:
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; v.16
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Neoplatonic Compulsions -- Augustine -- Neoplatonism and Derrida's "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials" -- The Structural Relation between Derrida's Two Readings of Neoplatonism -- Neoplatonism and Derrida's "Circumfession" -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two. Derrida's Paradigms of Negative Theology -- 2.1. Bridging the Gap -- Proclus -- Proclus on the Gods - Being and Mediation -- A "Deconstructive" Tendency -- Continuity and Causality in Proclus -- Derrida on Heidegger and Heidegger's Gods -- 2.2. Prayer(s) -- Pseudo-Dionysius -- 2.3. Hearing Voices -- Meister Eckhart -- 2.4. From the One to the Blank -- Damascius -- Chapter Three. Philosophy [Space] Literature -- Proclus - Mallarme -- MIMIQUE -- Afterwords -- Bibliography -- Pre-Modern Sources -- Derrida -- Heidegger -- Mallarme -- Other Authors -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms and Concepts.
Abstract:
Stephen Gersh's Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida continues his earlier project (Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006)) of reading the philosophy of late antiquity in a critical encounter with Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Platonism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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