{"product_id":"plotinus-the-master-and-the-apotheosis-of-imperial-platonism-9781666944396","title":"Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as “Imperial.” It is in contrast with Plato—a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves—that William H. F. Altman presents Plotinus as a master, who uses a seductive form of rhetoric throughout the Enneads to persuade his disciples to ignore his self-contradictions and decontextualized quotations from Plato while instead regarding his spiritual experiences, combined with a gift for the creative synthesis of previous thinkers, as the principal basis of their faithful and uncritical allegiance. While setting Plotinus in the context of the Roman Empire and his own critique of the Gnostics, this book grapples throughout with his current and virtually uncritical reception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Idea of Imperial Platonism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Plotinus the Master \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. Teachers and Masters \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. The Exegete of the Platonic Revelation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Platonic Exegesis §1: Theaetetus 176a8-b2 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Plotinian Exegesis §1: 4.8 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Defending the Master \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Between Apollonius and Julian §1: Returning to the Cave \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. Plotinus and Plato’s Ion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Porphyry the Disciple \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. Three Portraits of the Master in Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. The Master’s Favorite Disciple \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Plotinian Exegesis §2: Longinus, Concerning the End (20.68-76) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Between Apollonius and Julian §2: Pythagoras Reborn \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Longinus, [Longinus], and Anti-Imperial Platonism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Platonic Exegesis §2: (R. 509b1-9) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. The Other Side of Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Porphyry’s Successors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. The Apologetic Moment in the Interpretation of Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. “A Text Worthy of Plotinus” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. The Reason Why \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Between Apollonius and Julian §3: Praising the Pagan Wise Man \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Plotinian Exegesis §3: 5.5 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Platonic Exegesis §3: (R. 506d7-507a5) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. Richard Harder and the Großschrift \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Imperial Platonism and the Gnostics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. In Defense of Dualism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. Nag Hammadi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Gnosticism as Anti-Imperial Platonism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Platonic Exegesis §4: Timaeus 28b2-c2, Republic 517a8-b6, Laws 945e2-946a1 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Between Apollonius and Julian §4: Solar Theology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Plotinian Exegesis §4: 2.9 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. Mazurism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Pierre Hadot and the Real Plotinus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. Between Apollonius and Julian §5: “The End of Paganism” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. Mazur and Hadot \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Hadot’s Plotinus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Platonic Exegesis §5: Sophist 248e7-249a3 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. The Real Plato? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Plotinian Exegesis §5: 6.7 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. The Revival of Plotinus: Why Now? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Plotinus on Plato’s One \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. Between Reading and Misreading: Apollonius and Julian §6 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. Interpretive Sophistry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Why Plato’s One is not the Idea of the Good \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Plotinus the Demiurge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Platonic Exegesis §6: Parmenides 143a4-9 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. The Pre-Existent “Stuff” of 6.6 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. Plotinian Exegesis §6: 6.6 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The Rhetorical Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1. Plotinus Orator \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2. Between Apollonius and Julian §7: Philostratus and Eunapius \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3. Dispositio \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4. Cosmos as Prophet and the Pagan Holy Man \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5. Plotinian Exegesis §7: 4.7.10 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6. Platonic Exegesis §7: Letters 312e4-313a6 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7. πειθοῦς δημιουργός \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042039988567,"sku":"9781666944396","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666944396.jpg?v=1750952749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plotinus-the-master-and-the-apotheosis-of-imperial-platonism-9781666944396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}