Georgios Gemistos Plethon
Subtitle: the Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance
By: edited by Jozef Matula, Paul Richard Blum
Edition: 1. vydáni.
Publisher: Centrum pro práci s renesančními texty CZ
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Olomouc [Czech Republic]
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9788024444239
Subjects: Congresses; Renaissance Philosophy; Neoplatonists; History; Philosophy
Notes: "Georgios Gemistos Plethon (1352–1452) was a representative of 14th/15th-century Byzantine thought, which manifested itself in three basic forms: Greek Christian Orthodoxy, interchange with the western European strains of thought (e.g., translation of scholastic works into Greek, but also evident in the Council of Ferrara-Florence), and a revival (“renaissance”) of Greek culture, which has been variously named proto-nationalism in the 19th century, paganism from the Christian standpoint, and Hellenism for its parallels with 19th-century Greek nostalgia."--Page 9.

"This volume contains contributions from the international conference ... "Georgios Gemistos Plethon: the Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance"," which took place at the Center for Renaissance Texts at the Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic), from the 10th through the 12th of May, 2013."--Page 9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English, with 1 contribution in German; abstracts in English.
Table of contents: title: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468): Stadtherr von Rimini, Neuheide und Verehrer Plethons / Wilhelm Blum; title: Constructing Pagan Platonism: Plethon’s Theory of Fate and the Ancient Philosophical Tradition / László Bene; title: Plethon’s Philosophy of the Concept / George Arabatzis; title: Plethon and Scholarios on Deliberation in Art and Nature / Sergei Mariev; title: Hermonymos Christonymos Charitonymos’ Capita decem pro divinitate Christi: A Posthumous Reaction to Plethon’s Anti-Christianism / John A. Demetracopoulos; title: How to Make a New Philosophy From an Old Platonism: Plethon and Cusanus on Phaedrua / Mikhail Khorkov; title: From Byzantium to Italy: “Ancient Wisdom” in Plethon and Cusanus / Vojtěch Hladký; title: The Fate of Plethon´s Criticism of Averroes / Jozef Matula; title: Plethon’s Opuscula de historia Graeca and Bruni’s Commentarium rerum Graecarum: Rewriting Greek History Between the Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance / Davide Amendola; title: Plethon in Duplicate, in Triplicate … The Question of Portraits / Walter Seitter; title: Are Psellos’s and Plethon’s Chaldaean Oracles Genuine? / Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker; title: Plethon the First Philhellene: Re-enacting the Antiquity / Paul Richard Blum; title: Plethon and the Philosophy of Nationalism / Niketas Siniossoglou; title: George Gemistos Plethon and the Crisis of Modern Greek Identity / Jacek Raszewski.