Platonism : Ficino to Foucault / edited by Valery Rees, Anna Corrias, Francesca M. Crasta, Laura Follesa, Guido Giglioni

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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Philosophy on the Defensive: Marsilio Ficino's Response in a Time of Religious Turmoil -- Chapter 2 Ficino, Plotinus, and the Chameleonic Soul -- Chapter 3 Healing Rituals and Their Philosophical Significance in Marsilio Ficino's Philosophy -- Chapter 4 A Platonic Light Metaphysics between St Augustine and Ficino: Girolamo Seripando's Quaestiones CIX de re philosophico-theologica -- Chapter 5 The Letter of Lysis to Hipparchus in the Renaissance -- Chapter 6 Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's Accounts of Veridical Dreams and the Idola of Synesius -- Chapter 7 The Platonic Stain: Origen, Philosophy and Censorship between the Renaissance and the Counter Reformation -- Chapter 8 Francisco de Hollanda on Artistic Creation, the Origin of Ideas, and Demiurgic Painting -- Chapter 9 'Platonic-Hermetic' Jacob Böhme, or: Is Böhme a Platonist? -- Chapter 10 The Theory of Ideal Objects and Relations in the Cambridge Platonists (Rust, More, and Cudworth) -- Chapter 11 Platonism, Metaphysics, and Modern Science: Rüdiger and Swedenborg -- Chapter 12 Schelling and Plato: The Idea of the World Soul in Schelling's Timaeus -- Chapter 13 On the Phenomenological 'Reactivation' or 'Repetition' of Plato's Dialogues by Leo Strauss -- Chapter 14 Care of the Self and Politics: Michel Foucault, Heir of a Forgotten Plato? -- Chapter 15 Dialectic in Plato's Sophist and Derrida's 'Law of the Supplement of Copula' -- Chapter 16 Image and Copy in French Deconstruction of Platonism -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called 'Critique of Modernity'.