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Lecture 5: Platonists and deplatonizers
The Platonic legacy was a vital, but contested and highly ambiguous presence in English culture from the mid seventeenth century to the early nineteenth. The influence of the Cambridge Platonists and, later, the outright neo-pagan Thomas Taylor, was overshadowed by a persistent and dominant critique of Platonism, in Bolingbroke, Gibbon, and Priestley among others.
Date:
16 February 2023, 17:00
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
South Schools
Speaker:
Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
