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Plato and Jesus, Not Caesar

Metaphysics of Freedom and Tyranny in Younger Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book discusses the influence of ancient and medieval Platonism and Christian Platonism on the modern political concepts and experiences of freedom and tyranny in Central-Eastern Europe. The main claim of the book is that because the nations of Younger Europe were oppressed by the imperialism of Russia, Germany, and Austria, they maintained a stronger connection to the premodern, Christian Platonic tradition. This tradition was experienced as a source of inspiration in the struggle for freedom and independence. The book focuses on the life and work of selected philosophers, poets, and artists, all of whom were both mystics and figures deeply engaged in their nations’ fight for freedom.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-10-23
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt653 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor302
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004736627

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Younger Europe, Freedom and the Image of God1 The West, the East, and the In-Between2 From Plato and the Scripture to French Newspapers3 Every Soul Is a Child of That Father4 The Image of God5 Children of the Free Woman6 Between Two Tyrannies7 The Structure of This Book1 Cherubinic Wanderers (Jan Ámos Komenský and Johannes Scheffler)1 In the Footsteps of God2 Divine Nothingness3 Wikipedia or Paideia?4 Initium Calamitatis Regni Poloniae2 The World Couldn’t Catch Them (Hasidic Jews and Hrihory Skovoroda)1 Between Spinoza and Sabbatai Zevi2 The Third Rome3 The Messiahs4 Alia res sceptrum, alia res plectrum5 Living in Holiness6 What Is Freedom?7 Two Kinds of Tyranny3 Two Emperors and the Sun of Freedom (Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin)1 The Russian Experiment with Liberalism2 Muscovite Friends3 The Statue of Peter I4 God and Freedom (Adam Mickiewicz and Pyotr Chaadaev)1 The Mystic-Politician2 Philosophy as Mental Illness3 A More Immediate Feeling of God4 Living the Divine Life5 The Slavs Don’t Possess Anything5 The World of Souls (Vladimir Solovyov and Wincenty Lutosławski)1 Suffused with a Golden Azure2 A Possession for Ever3 Divine Humanity4 I Have Lived on This Earth Before5 Theocracy and Panmongolism6 The Scythians and Their Jesus Christ (Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok)1 Two Poets and Divine Wisdom2 Christianity as a Mystical Fact3 Jesus the Bolshevik4 The Poet and the Crowd5 Darkness at Noon7 Life Founded upon Seeing What Is (Wincenty Lutosławski and Jan Patočka)1 Between the Two Wars2 A Small Central-European Nation3 The Whole Showing4 Christianity as the Abysmal Deepening of the Soul8 What Plato Did for You? (Valentin Tomberg)1 Awakening of Deep Soul Forces2 The Fall of the Law3 The Magician9 Searching for Truth (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Józef Czapski)1 The Mystery of Existence2 A World Entirely Different3 Dark Night of the Soul4 The Pill of Happiness5 Necessity and Grace6 The Chains and the CrossConclusionBibliographyIndex

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