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 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2023)
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