This note offers a critical appraisal of Jeremy Swist's
Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome
(Oxford University Press, 2025), a significant contribution to the study of the emperor Julian within late-antique imperial ideology. The discussion engages with Swist's central arguments: his reconstruction of Julian's Iamblichean foundations of kingship, his vision of Rome as the providential culmination of Hellenic civilisation, and his self-fashioning as an Augustan imperial refounder. While largely endorsing Swist's integrative approach and his interpretation of the
Caesars
as a theurgic allegory, the analysis challenges his tendency to reduce Julian's Neoplatonism to its ritual-theurgical dimension, arguing that Julian's theological writings reveal a substantive philosophical engagement with Iamblichean metaphysics. Additionally, the article calls for greater attention to Julian's complex dialectical relationship with contemporary Christianity, which shaped his thought through both polemical opposition and subtle conceptual absorption.
This study examines St. Augustine of Hippo's metaphysical interpretation of John 5:26, explores its philosophical foundations, demonstrates how his argument establishes the Son's equality with the Father, and evaluates its novelty and relevance for contemporary theological scholarship. Within the broader patristic corp...
The emergence of Modernism in the early twentieth century brought profound transformations in literary representation, reflecting the fragmentation, uncertainty, and spiritual disillusionment experienced by individuals living in rapidly changing social and cultural environments. Among the literary works that most effec...
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This article examines the reception of Spinoza’s philosophy in seventeenth-century England, focusing on Henry More and Anne Conway within the circle of the Cambridge Platonists. Taking as its point of departure Spinoza’s claim that the human mind possesses an adequate idea of God which nevertheless often remains inoper...
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This article examines the conceptual affinities between American Pragmatism and European post-structuralist thought through a comparative reading of Charles S. Peirce, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. It argues that Peirce’s “ultra-Copernican revolution” redefines philosophical inquiry by shifting attention from th...
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Irving Greenberg (b. 1933), among the most influential American Jewish theologians responding to the Holocaust, consistently describes his theological approach as “postmodern”—emphasising the breakdown of absolutes, fragmentation, and the failure of modern certainties. This article argues that the label is misleading....
This article examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Der Erlkönig (1782) and John Keats's ballad La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) within the framework of Jungian psychoanalysis, focusing particularly on the poetic representation of the shadow and trickster archetypes. The study argues that both works vividly dramatise the...
İsmail Tekşen· Selcuk Universitesi Sosyal B...· 0 citations
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