General Sketch of the History of Pantheism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title General Sketch of the History of Pantheism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Constance E. Plumptre
SeriesGeneral Sketch of the History of Pantheism 2 Volume Paperback Set
Series part Volume No. Volume 1
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:408
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreBuddhism
ISBN/Barcode 9781108028011
ClassificationsDewey:211.2
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 June 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A perceptive thinker and author of five scholarly tomes as well as numerous essays, the philosopher and historian of religion Constance E. Plumptre is now unfamiliar to many readers. Yet for a period of just over twenty years between 1878 and 1902 she championed some of the most fascinating philosophical and religious theories of the Victorian age. Although she won greatest acclaim for Studies in Little-Known Subjects (1898), her first work, General Sketch of the History of Pantheism, published anonymously in 1878, remains one of the most significant histories of philosophy ever written. Taking in Brahminism, the Ionian School, Pythagoras and the Neo-Platonists, as well as the work of Bruno and Vanini, the first volume provides an erudite but accessible introduction to Oriental, Greek and modern Pantheism. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=plumce