Individuality in Late Antiquity /

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Imprint:	Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.
Subject:	Identity (Philosophical concept) Individuality. Individualism. Identity (Philosophical concept) Individualism. Individuality. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218769

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Other authors / contributors:	Torrance, Alexis, 1985- Zachhuber, Johannes.
ISBN:	9781409440574 1409440575 9781306471237 1306471230
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book, the authors assess the influence of seminal thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role played by intellectual disciplines such as grammar and Christian theology. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to late antique understandings of human individuality.
Other form:	Print version: Torrance, Alexis. Individuality in Late Antiquity. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014 9781409440574

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Individuality in Some Gnostic Authors, with a Few Remarks on the Interpretation of Ptolemy's Epistula ad Floram; 2 Astrology and Freedom: The Case of Firmicus Maternus; 3 Plotinus on Sensible Particulars and Individual Essences; 4 Logico-grammatical Reflections about Individuality in Late Antiquity; 5 Individuality and the Theological Debate about 'Hypostasis'; 6 Individuality and Identity-formation in Late Antique Monasticism; 7 Individuality and the Resurrection in Some Late Antique Texts; 8 John Philoponus on Individuality and Particularity; 9 The Religious Constitution of Individuality: One Motif of Augustine's Confessions in Modern Intellectual History and Theology; Bibliography; Index.

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