Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403966018
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Sacred space; Neoplatonism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Philosophy, Medieval; Place (Philosophy)
First sentence: It is a sad fact that Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade, two thinkers who have revitalized the study of place in the twentieth century, both patronized regimes now remembered only for their brutality.
Description: "Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in the writings of Neoplatonists from the third to ninth centuries, and sets them in the context of present-day debates over place and the sacred."--BOOK JACKET.