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Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.
Grouped together in four broad headings, the essays in this book offer a well-balanced examination of both Neoplatonic aesthetics and its significance in Western art. The concept of "beautiful" and its influence on Christian thinkers is addressed in the works of various Neoplatonists from Plotinus to Proclus. The book also shows how historically the Neoplatonic concept of beauty is investigated and utilized by certain renowned artists and architects. Also discussed is the influence of Neoplatonism in contemporary discussions involving the creative process and the aesthetic experience generally. Furthermore, the concept of the beautiful plays a central role in discussions involving processes governing the generation of the world in Plotinus' works.
Preface
R. Baine Harris
Editors' Introduction
Nicholas J. Moutafakis and Aphrodite Alexandrakis
I. Neoplatonism and the Concept of the Beautiful
Action, Contemplation and Interiority in the Thinking if Beauty in Plotinus
Jean-Marc Narbonne
Personal Beauty in the Thought of Plotinus
Joseph Sen
The Beautiful According to Dionysius
Dimitrios N. Koutras
The Experience of Beauty in Plotinus and Aquinas: Some Similarities and Differences
Patrick Quinn
II. Neoplatonism and Representational Design
The Sense of Beauty in Proclus the Neoplatonist
Christos Terezis and Kalomoira Polychronopoulou
The Vigil of the One and Plotinian Iconoclasm
Frederic M. Schroeder
Neoplatonic Influences on Eastern Iconography: A Greek-rooted Tradition
Aphrodite Alexandrakis
The Neoplatonic Tradition in the Art of El Greco
Robert Meredith Helm
Giorgio Vasari's The Toilet of Venus: Neoplatonic Notion of Female Beauty
Liana De Girolami Cheney
Neoplatonism in the Design of Baroque Architecture
John Hendrix
III. Neoplatonism in Contemporary Aesthetics
Poetic Hierarchies in the Works of Nikos Kazantzakis
John P. Anton
Neoplatonic Elements in the Spiritual Life
John Lachs
Martin Heidegger in Mimesis in Plato and Platonism
Constaintinos Proimos
The Neoplatonic Dimensions of Skovoroda's Aesthetic Theory
Roman T. Ciapalo
Neoplatonism and American Aesthetics
Jay Bregman
IV. Neoplatonism and Cosmic Genesis
The Role of Aesthetics in Plotinus' Ascent of the Soul
J. Noel Hubler
Creation or Metamorphosis? Plotinus on the Genesis of the World
Panayiota Vassilopoulou
Divinized and De-divinized Conceptions of the World and of Cosmos
Leonidas C. Bargeliotes
The Contributors
Index