Our Divine Double / / Charles M. Stang.
What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Narcissus and His Double
- 1. Reading Plato’s Many Doubles
- 2. Thomas, Who Is Called “Twin”
- 3. Syzygies, Twins, and Mirrors
- 4. Mani and His Twin - Companion
- 5. Plotinus and the Doubled Intellect
- 6. Whither the Divine Double?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index