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Proklos and Plethon on Beauty

  • Sergei Mariev
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Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium
This chapter is in the book Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Introduction: Byzantine Aesthetics 1
  5. Theurgy and Aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite 13
  6. Nikephoros Chumnos’ Treatise On Matter 31
  7. Proklos and Plethon on Beauty 57
  8. Toward a selfdetermined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael 75
  9. Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity: Polemics or Communication? 105
  10. Transcendent Exemplarism and Immanent Realism in the Philosophical Work of John of Damaskos 127
  11. ‘Fire Walk With Me’: an attempt at an interpretation of Theurgy and its Aesthetics 143
  12. Contribution of Church Slavonic Translations to Understanding of Byzantine Anti-Iconoclast Polemics (The Case of the Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Theophilos) 199
  13. Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the Case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos 205
  14. INDEX 235
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512615.57

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Introduction: Byzantine Aesthetics 1
  5. Theurgy and Aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite 13
  6. Nikephoros Chumnos’ Treatise On Matter 31
  7. Proklos and Plethon on Beauty 57
  8. Toward a selfdetermined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael 75
  9. Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity: Polemics or Communication? 105
  10. Transcendent Exemplarism and Immanent Realism in the Philosophical Work of John of Damaskos 127
  11. ‘Fire Walk With Me’: an attempt at an interpretation of Theurgy and its Aesthetics 143
  12. Contribution of Church Slavonic Translations to Understanding of Byzantine Anti-Iconoclast Polemics (The Case of the Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Theophilos) 199
  13. Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the Case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos 205
  14. INDEX 235
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