General Editor

Alexander J.B. Hampton (Toronto)

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This five-volume series details the role of Platonism in modern philosophy from the Renaissance and Reformation forward. The goal of the series is to offer an authoritative, systematic, and accessible reference to one of the defining contours of the Western intellectual tradition.

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Platonism in the modern era presents a fascinating story and a challenge for scholarship that has yet to be systematically elaborated in a comprehensive series like this one. On the one hand, its realist ontology increasingly loses ground to ascendent nominalist forms of thought from the late middle ages onward. Yet on the other hand, Platonism becomes the imaginative fulcrum for a wide range of diverse figures who wish to challenge, reconceptualise and engage a multiplicity of modern developments. Similarly, genealogies of influence become increasingly complex during the modern period. As the availability of Platonic materials increases, means of transmission multiply alongside the complexity of engagement with key Platonic ideas, leading to productive and unexpected developments.

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Finally, this series aims to challenge the received narrative concerning Platonism, wherein its influence has largely been restricted to antiquity and the Middle Ages. This series set forth a continuous tradition of Platonic innovation and intervention within the history of Western philosophy from the Renaissance and Reformation forward. As such, The History of Platonism in the Modern Age series is intended to provoke interest and debate, whilst simultaneously consolidating and advancing the field.

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The series will be published by Cambridge University Press, with publication planned for 2027.

 

VOLUMES

Platonism and the Italian Renaissance

Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins) & Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame)

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Platonism and the Northern Renaissance & Reformation

Cicelia Maurtori (Pavia), Michele Merlicco (Macerata), Mario Meliadò (Siegen)

 

Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy

Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf), Samuel Kaldas (UNDA)

 

Platonism and Classical German Philosophy

Alexander J.B. Hampton (Toronto), Paolo Livieri (Messina)

 

Platonism, Romanticism and Transcendentalism

John M. Corrigan (Chengchi), Alexander J.B. Hampton (Toronto)