Name: Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics
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Author: Narbonne, Jean-Marc
ISBN: 9789004203266

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portada Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean-Marc Narbonne

Publisher

Brill

Year

2011

Pages

164

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1 x 16.3 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9789004203266

Synopsis "Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics"

The point of view put forth in the following pages differs greatly from the common perspective according to which the treatises 30 to 33 constitute a single work, a Gro schrift, and this single work, Plotinus' essential response to the Gnostics. Our perspective is that of an ongoing discussions with his "Gnostic"--yet Platonizing--friends, which started early in his writings (at least treatise 6), developed into what we could call a Gro zyklus (treatises 27 to 39), and went on in later treatises as well (e. g. 47-48, 51). The prospect of an ongoing discussion with the Gnostics bears an additional virtue, that of allowing for a truly dynamic understanding of the Plotinian corpus.