L. Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington works primarily on the Neoplatonic tradition in Western thought, especially in its early efforts to define the relation between philosophy and religious practice (particularly in Iamblichus and Dionysius the Areopagite), and in its later gestation of concepts that will be crucial to modernity (particularly in Barlaam the Calabrian, Gregory Palamas, and Nicholas of Cusa). He is currently working on a series of editions and translations of a thirteenth-century Latin version of the Dionysian corpus. He also has an interest in the contemporary revival of thinking about place, especially in its implications for environmental philosophy generally and wilderness theory in particular.
Email: harringtonm@duq.edu
Education
B.A., 1995, St. John's College; M.A., Classics, 1997, Dalhousie University; Ph.D., Philosophy, 2001, Boston College
Courses
Dionysius and Augustine, The Greek Middle Ages, Rethinking Place, Plato
Selected Publications
Books
Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism. The New Middle Ages. Ed. B. Wheeler. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology at the University of Paris. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations. Ed. P. Rosemann. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
Articles
“Recent Attempts to Define a Dionysian Political Theory.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Charlottesville, VA, forthcoming.
With Kevin Corrigan. “Dionysius the Areopagite.” History of Western Philosophy and Religion. Ed. G. Oppy and N. Trakakis. Chesham , UK : Acumen, forthcoming.
With Kevin Corrigan. “Dionysius the Areopagite.” The Invention of Sacred Tradition. Ed. O. Hammer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Creation and Natural Contemplation in Maximus the Confessor's Ambiguum 10.19.” Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays Presented to the Rev'd Dr. Robert D. Crouse . Ed. M. Treschow, W. Otten, and W. Hannam. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007.
“Body and the Discursive in the Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite and His First Scholiast.” Studia Patristica XLII. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
“The Drunken Epibole of Plotinus and Its Reappearance in the Work of Dionysius the Areopagite.” Dionysius XXIII. Halifax, 2005.
“The Argument for Universal Immortality in Eriugena's ‘Zoology.'” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Charlottesville, VA , 2005.
“Eastern and Western Psychological Triads in Eriugena's Realized Eschatology.” History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and his Time. Ed. J. McEvoy and M. Dunne. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002.
“Anastasius the Librarian's Reading of the Greek Scholia on the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus.” Studia Patristica XXXVI. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.
“Unusquisque in suo sensu abundet: Human Perspective in Eriugena's Periphyseon.” Dionysius XVI. Halifax, 1998.
Internet
With Kevin Corrigan. “Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2004 Edition). Ed. E. N. Zalta. [http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/pseudo-dionysius-areopagite/]
