Reading Ancient Texts. Volume II: Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004165120)

What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O'Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy.

Contributors include: T. Buchheim, J. Cleary, K. Corrigan, D. Evans, G. Gurtler S.J., C. Horn, J.-M. Narbonne, C. Natali, G. O'Daly, F. Schroeder, S. Stern-Gillet, P. Thillet, and C. Viano.

Publications by Denis O'Brien:
- Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print)
- Pour interpr騁er Emp馘ocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print)
- Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3
- Th駮dic馥 plotinienne, th駮dic馥 gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9

Author: Suzanne Stern-Gillet
ISBN-10: 9004165126
ISBN-13: 9789004165120
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.54w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 4