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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
[xxi] Implicit in that acknowledgement is a further debt, to the inventers and sustainers of the Word Wide Web, which serves-in addition to its practical advantages-as a working image, eikon aei eikonizomene (“an image always reimagining itself”; after II.3 [52].18, 17), of the Plotinian Intellect.
Part I: Prolegomena
1. Why Read Plotinus?
2. How to Read Plotinus?
3. Theories about Metaphor
4. Dialectic
Part II: Metaphorically Speaking
5. Naked and Alone
6. On Becoming Love
7. Shadow Plays and Mirrors
8. Reason Drunk and Sober
9. Dancing
10. Remembering and Forgetting
[122] It is forgetting that is more significant for Plotinus than this-wordly use of the art of memory. Heracles's shadow might recall his earthly life, but Heracles himself does not remember it IV.3 [27].27.1)
11. Standing Up to the Blows of Fortune
Part III: The Plotinian Imaginary
12. Platonic and Classical Myths
13. Spheres and Circles
14. Charms and Countercharms
15. Invoking Demons
16. Images Within and Without
17. Fixed Stars and Planets
18. Waking Up
Part IV: Understanding the Hyposteses
19. Matter
20. Nature
21. Soul
22. Nous
23. The One
Part V: The Plotinian Way
[296] The quotation is not from Isaiah 12.6 but from Isaiah 11.6.
Bibliography
Index of Passages from the Enneads
Index of Names and Subjects
Stranamente ignora KALLIGAS 2014, sia nella bibliografia che nell'indice.
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