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Author:   Zeke Mazur
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   98
Weight:   0.719kg
ISBN:  

9789004441675

ISBN 10:   9004441670
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editor’s Preface to the Present Volume Author’s Acknowledgments Editor’s Note on References, Editions, and Translations Abbreviations List of Tables Author’s Preface 1 Introduction: The Gnostic Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism  1 The Fundamental Problem of Plotinian Mysticism  2 Problems with the Prior Scholarship on Plotinian Mysticism  3 Platonizing Sethian Visionary Ascent and the Historical Context of Plotinian Mysticism  4 The Current State of the Research 2 The Structure of Plotinus’ Ascent to Mystical Union with the One  1 Introduction  2 Phase A: Catharsis  3 Phase B: Mystical Self-Reversion  4 Phase C: Autophany  5 Excursus: A First Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject  6 Phase C2: Self-Unification  7 Phase D: Annihilation  8 Excursus: Second Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject  9 Excursus: On Beauty  10 Phase E: Union with the One  11 Vision and Light  12 Ennead VI.9[9].11.22–25 [See Complete Passage in Appendix A8]  13 Ennead VI.7[38].36.10–26 [Appendix A16]  14 Ennead V.3[49].17.28–38 [Appendix A19]  15 Excursus on V.3[49].17–28  16 Ennead V.5[32].8.18–21 [Appendix A12]  17 Convergence of Center-Points  18 Sexual Intercourse  19 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.23–32  20 Rapture or Spatial Displacement  21 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.36–40  22 Excursus on VI.7[38].36.15–18  23 Cultic Praxis  24 Phase E2: Desubjectification  25 Conclusion 3 The Identity of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Subjects in Plotinus  1 Introduction  2 1. Plotinian Ontogenesis  3 2. The Identity of the Hypernoetic Subject with the Prenoetic Efflux  4 3. The Convergence of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Ecstasy  5 Conclusion 4 “The Way of Ascent is the Way of Descent”: The Mechanism of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethian Gnosticism  1 Introduction  2 1. The Structure of Ascent in the Platonizing Sethian Ascent Treatises  3 2. Mystical Self-Reversion and Autophany in Gnostic Visionary Ascent  4 3. The Faculty of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethianism  5 Conclusion 5 Conclusion: Dissolving Boundaries  1 Introduction  2 1. Platonists and Gnostics in Alexandria and Rome: Biographical and Socio-historical Reflections  3 2. Philosophical Contemplation and Ritual Praxis  4 Conclusion  Appendices Bibliography

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'Speculations, hypotheses, and unanswered questions haunt this fascinating volume. [...] [we can] accept his general claim that Platonizing Sethian spirituality influenced and inspired Plotinus' own view of the ascent of the soul to the One.' Mateusz Strozynski, University Adam Mickiewicza, BMCR 2021, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.10.36/

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Alexander J. ‘Zeke’ Mazur, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy of Université Laval, Québec, Canada. His research and publications focused on Plotinus and the Gnostics as well as other aspects of the relationship between religious praxis and academic philosophy in late antiquity.

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