Dr. Andrea Lemnaru Espuna
Dr. A. Lemnaru Espuna is a French philosopher (PhD. in Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne) of religions and nature, specializing in the study of Neoplatonism, both "pagan" and early-Christian.
She is also interested in comparative philosophy of religions - ancient Greek and Asian.
ORCID : 0000-0001-6278-4988
Since 2024, Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is the Principal Investigator of the postdoctoral research project 'Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism' (ESP-693) at the University of Vienna, supported by the Austrian Science Fund.
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is a permanent associate member of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge - where she was a visiting scholar in 2022. She is also the director of the Neoplatonism, Religions & Theurgy research group of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (Rome).
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is the lead editor of the collective volume Religious Initiatic Experience in Neoplatonism: from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Mimesis Edizioni, 2023), co-edited by L. Albanese, J. M. Zamora Calvo and G. Muscolino, where she wrote the chapter "Theurgy and mystical experience in Iamblichus and the Corpus Hermeticum : divinization or dissolution of the self?".
She published a number of studies in peer-reviwed journals and collective volumes.
Her monograph on metaphysics, theurgy and hermeticism in Iamblichus is currently in press.
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna has been a regular speaker in Oxford, Cambridge, London and Rome since 2016. She published most of her studies in English.
Fluent in English, French (native), Italian, Spanish and German, Dr. Lemnaru Espuna reads Greek and Latin, and has notions in hieroglyphic Egyptian and Coptic.
www.andreealemnaru.com
She is also interested in comparative philosophy of religions - ancient Greek and Asian.
ORCID : 0000-0001-6278-4988
Since 2024, Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is the Principal Investigator of the postdoctoral research project 'Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism' (ESP-693) at the University of Vienna, supported by the Austrian Science Fund.
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is a permanent associate member of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge - where she was a visiting scholar in 2022. She is also the director of the Neoplatonism, Religions & Theurgy research group of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (Rome).
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna is the lead editor of the collective volume Religious Initiatic Experience in Neoplatonism: from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Mimesis Edizioni, 2023), co-edited by L. Albanese, J. M. Zamora Calvo and G. Muscolino, where she wrote the chapter "Theurgy and mystical experience in Iamblichus and the Corpus Hermeticum : divinization or dissolution of the self?".
She published a number of studies in peer-reviwed journals and collective volumes.
Her monograph on metaphysics, theurgy and hermeticism in Iamblichus is currently in press.
Dr. Lemnaru Espuna has been a regular speaker in Oxford, Cambridge, London and Rome since 2016. She published most of her studies in English.
Fluent in English, French (native), Italian, Spanish and German, Dr. Lemnaru Espuna reads Greek and Latin, and has notions in hieroglyphic Egyptian and Coptic.
www.andreealemnaru.com
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The catalogue prepared for these different venues pursues three main objectives: proposing, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades; promoting by means of high-quality illustrations numerous monuments, both famous and unknown, that represent so many pieces of the giant Mithraic puzzle; lastly, to restore Mithras to his proper place in the religious landscape of yesterday and the European culture of today. For ordering the catalogue: accueil@mariemont.be
Le statut du Non-Être (μὴ ὄν) antécosmogonique dans la philosophie antique mérite un intérêt tout particulier, dans la mesure où elle est au fondement de toutes les ontologies, depuis les présocratiques qui ne le désignent pas encore comme tel aux néoplatoniciens, qui lui accordent un rôle majeur dans leur métaphysique. Et plus spécifiquement, la manière dont le concept mythologique de Chaos (notamment dans ses versions orphique et égyptienne), a influencé et permis de développer le concept de Non-Être montre la relation étroite qu'entretient le fond religieux méditerranéen à la théorisation philosophique.
Le passage du Non-Être à l'Être en ontologie correspond également, dans l'histoire de la pensée, à celui du μύθος au λόγος. Cette étude souhaiterait contribuer à montrer en quoi le premier constitue la matière première du second et interroger cette opposition classique, qui ne s'est jamais révélée plus obsolète que dans l'inclusivisme religieux de la tradition néoplatonicienne.
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The catalogue prepared for these different venues pursues three main objectives: proposing, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades; promoting by means of high-quality illustrations numerous monuments, both famous and unknown, that represent so many pieces of the giant Mithraic puzzle; lastly, to restore Mithras to his proper place in the religious landscape of yesterday and the European culture of today. For ordering the catalogue: accueil@mariemont.be
Le statut du Non-Être (μὴ ὄν) antécosmogonique dans la philosophie antique mérite un intérêt tout particulier, dans la mesure où elle est au fondement de toutes les ontologies, depuis les présocratiques qui ne le désignent pas encore comme tel aux néoplatoniciens, qui lui accordent un rôle majeur dans leur métaphysique. Et plus spécifiquement, la manière dont le concept mythologique de Chaos (notamment dans ses versions orphique et égyptienne), a influencé et permis de développer le concept de Non-Être montre la relation étroite qu'entretient le fond religieux méditerranéen à la théorisation philosophique.
Le passage du Non-Être à l'Être en ontologie correspond également, dans l'histoire de la pensée, à celui du μύθος au λόγος. Cette étude souhaiterait contribuer à montrer en quoi le premier constitue la matière première du second et interroger cette opposition classique, qui ne s'est jamais révélée plus obsolète que dans l'inclusivisme religieux de la tradition néoplatonicienne.
Morning session. President : Pierre Caye (Jean Pépin, ENS, CNRS).
10h-10h40. Nicola Zito : « Mythe et eschatologie dans l'Antiquité tardive »
10h40-11h20. Michael Chase (Jean Pépin/ENS) : « Eschatologies du corps spirituel: Porphyre et Mullā Ṣadrā»
11h20-12:00. Adrian Mihai (University of Cambridge) : Purgatoire (titre à venir)
12h-14h: déjeuner
Afternoon session. President : Anca Vasiliu (Léon Robin, CNRS).
14h-14h40. Lucia Saudelli (Jean Pépin, CNRS) « L'inexistence de l'au-delà : pythagorisme, néo-pythagorisme et pseudo-pythagorisme »
14h40-15h20. Anna van den Kerchove (Institut de Théologie Protestante) : « Le voyage de l'âme dans des écrits hermétiques »
15h20-16h00 : Luc Brisson (ENS) : « La descente de l’âme dans un corps et le retour vers son origene : Plotin et Porphyre. »
16h-16h30 : break
16h30-17h10 : Andreea-Maria Lemnaru (Centre Léon Robin, LEM) : « L'au-delà dans le commentaire de Proclus sur le Mythe d'Er »
17h10-17h50. Dylan Burns (Freie Universitat Berlin) : « Sex, Death, and Free Will in Basilides, Bardaisan, and Origen.»
18h. Conclusion : Adrien Lecerf (Léon Robin).
https://mimesisinternational.com/initiatic-religious-experience-in-neoplatonism/
This volume, written from a diachronic perspective, is devoted to the initatic and deeply transformative dimension of religious experience in Neoplatonic philosophy which aims at restoring the soul’s condition prior to its descent into matter. It brings together philosophers and historians of religions, specializing in the study of mithraism, theurgy, Christian mysticism and the philosophical exegesis of the “Chaldean Oracles”.
Contributors :
Andreea-Maria Lemnaru
Kevin Corrigan
Ilaria Ramelli
Luciano Albanese
Giuseppe Muscolino
Bruce MacLennan
José-Maria Zamora Calvo
Robert Lima
José-Manuel Redondo