Renaissance and rebirth : : reincarnation in early modern Italian kabbalah / / by Brian Ogren.
Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to a...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Jewish history and culture, v. 24 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ;
v. 24. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Metempsychosis, philosophy and Kabbalah : the debate in Candia
- The extra-debatal literature of Candia and questions of Identity
- Philosophical and mystical possibilities of metempsychosis : Isaac Abarbanel
- Spanish and Italian conceptions of metempsychosis in Judah Hayyat
- Elia Hayyim ben Binyamin of Genazzano, Prisca Theologia, and the two ancient paths to metempsychosis
- Unity and diversity in Gilgul : Yohanan Alemanno
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the allegorical veridicality of transmigration
- Marsilio Ficino, circularity and rebirth.