Plato and Jesus, Not Caesar : Metaphysics of Freedom and Tyranny in Younger Europe /
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...
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
سلاسل:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ;
361.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: Z6207.G7 DE3
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Younger Europe, Freedom and the Image of God
- 1 The West, the East, and the In-Between
- 2 From Plato and the Scripture to French Newspapers
- 3 Every Soul Is a Child of That Father
- 4 The Image of God
- 5 Children of the Free Woman
- 6 Between Two Tyrannies
- 7 The Structure of This Book
- 1 Cherubinic Wanderers (Jan Ámos Komenský and Johannes Scheffler)
- 1 In the Footsteps of God
- 2 Divine Nothingness
- 3 Wikipedia or Paideia?
- 4 Initium Calamitatis Regni Poloniae
- 2 The World Couldn't Catch Them (Hasidic Jews and Hrihory Skovoroda)
- 1 Between Spinoza and Sabbatai Zevi
- 2 The Third Rome
- 3 The Messiahs
- 4 Alia res sceptrum, alia res plectrum
- 5 Living in Holiness
- 6 What Is Freedom?
- 7 Two Kinds of Tyranny
- 3 Two Emperors and the Sun of Freedom (Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin)
- 1 The Russian Experiment with Liberalism
- 2 Muscovite Friends
- 3 The Statue of Peter I
- 4 God and Freedom (Adam Mickiewicz and Pyotr Chaadaev)
- 1 The Mystic-Politician
- 2 Philosophy as Mental Illness
- 3 A More Immediate Feeling of God
- 4 Living the Divine Life
- 5 The Slavs Don't Possess Anything
- 5 The World of Souls (Vladimir Solovyov and Wincenty Lutosławski)
- 1 Suffused with a Golden Azure
- 2 A Possession for Ever
- 3 Divine Humanity
- 4 I Have Lived on This Earth Before
- 5 Theocracy and Panmongolism
- 6 The Scythians and Their Jesus Christ (Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok)
- 1 Two Poets and Divine Wisdom
- 2 Christianity as a Mystical Fact
- 3 Jesus the Bolshevik
- 4 The Poet and the Crowd
- 5 Darkness at Noon
- 7 Life Founded upon Seeing What Is (Wincenty Lutosławski and Jan Patočka)
- 1 Between the Two Wars
- 2 A Small Central-European Nation
- 3 The Whole Showing
- 4 Christianity as the Abysmal Deepening of the Soul
- 8 What Plato Did for You? (Valentin Tomberg)
- 1 Awakening of Deep Soul Forces
- 2 The Fall of the Law
- 3 The Magician
- 9 Searching for Truth (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Józef Czapski)
- 1 The Mystery of Existence
- 2 A World Entirely Different
- 3 Dark Night of the Soul
- 4 The Pill of Happiness
- 5 Necessity and Grace
- 6 The Chains and the Cross
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.