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By Alexis Torrance,Johannes Zachhuber

ISBN-10: 1138546089

ISBN-13: 9781138546080

ISBN-10: 1409440567

ISBN-13: 9781409440567

past due antiquity is more and more recognized as a interval of vital cultural transformation. one in all its an important facets is the emergence of a brand new knowledge of human individuality. during this e-book an interdisciplinary and foreign crew of students records and analyses this improvement. Authors investigate the effect of seminal thinkers, together with the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but additionally of cultural and spiritual practices comparable to astrology and monasticism, in addition to, extra as a rule, the position performed by means of highbrow disciplines similar to grammar and Christian theology. large in either subject and scope, the amount serves as a finished advent to overdue old understandings of human individuality.

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