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Philosophy
catalog 2020
Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
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1 Online Resources
6 Aesthetics & Cultural Theory
9 Asian Philosophy
11 Ethics & Moral Philosophy
13 History of Philosophy: Ancient
17 History of Philosophy: Medieval and
Early Modern
19 History of Philosophy: 19th & 20th
Century See page 6 See page 9 See page 12
20 Phenomenology & Existentialism
21 Philosophy of Language
22 Philosophy of Law
23 Philosophy of Religion
29 Philosophy of Science
30 Psychology & Philosophy
31 Social & Political Philosophy
36 Analytical Philosophy
See page 20 See page 23 See page 29
37 Journals
53 Order Information and Contact Page
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Brill’s New Pauly Supplements Online I
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements Online brings together 6 major
reference works for study of the ancient world and its reception
New Pauly Online in later centuries, including the acclaimed Historical Atlas of the
Ancient World. Ranging from comprehensive lists of rulers and
Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World dynasties that made their mark on history to the biographies of
scholars throughout the ages who shaped our knowledge of the
Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth classics.
Schneider (Antiquity) and Manfred Landfester
The collection consist of the following titles:
(Classical Tradition)
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1. Chronologies of the Ancient World
2. Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts
New Pauly Online features the complete sets of both Brill’s New 3. Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
Pauly and Metzler’s Der Neue Pauly. The encyclopedic coverage 4. The Reception of Myth and Mythology
and high academic standard of the work, the interdisciplinary and 5. The Reception of Classical Literature
contemporary approach and clear and accessible presentation 6. The History of Classical Scholarship
have made the New Pauly the unrivalled modern reference
work for the ancient world. Fifteen volumes (Antiquity, 1-15) are 1
devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two
thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium
BC to early medieval Europe. Special emphasis is given to the
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interaction between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, nps2
and Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic culture, and ancient E-ISSN 2468-3418
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other hand.
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process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the
ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements Online II
New Pauly Online is the unique dual-language online version of
this standard reference work for students and scholars. The English edition is only available as a set with the German
version Der Neue Pauly Supplemente II Online. For more details
Features and Benefits see Brill’s New Pauly Supplements Online II & Der Neue Pauly
- Includes ALL volumes of Der Neue Pauly and Brill’s New Pauly Supplemente II Online.
- Unique dual-language edition Brill’s New Pauly Supplements Online II brings together seven
- Browsable alphabetical index in both German and English reference volumes for study of the Ancient World and its
- Entries off er easy, direct access to basic information (names, reception in later centuries. Two reception volumes focus on
places, dates, objects) from all areas of Greek and Roman culture the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, while the volume
- Allows for basic and advanced searches about the reception of historical figures complements that about
- Fully cross-referenced including hyperlinks figures from mythology (vol. 4). The other four volumes are about
- Open Url (Uniform Resource Locator) which enables users to Antiquity itself – including Early and Late Antiquity.
easily find a copy of a resource that they would be allowed to
access The collection consists of the following titles:
7. Figures of Antiquity and their Reception in Art, Literature and
Music
For more information brill.com/bnpo
Available since 2007
8. The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
E-ISSN 1574-9347 9. Archaeology and History of Early Mediterranean Cultures
Also available in print 10. History and Culture of Byzantium
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Online Subscription: € 1,710 / $2,006 12. The Reception of Antiquity in the Enlightenment
Outright Purchase: € 10.202 / $11.968 13. The Germanic Peoples and Ancient Rome
Online Resources
Brill’s Studies in Intellectual Brill’s Encyclopedia of the
History Online Middle Ages Online
Supplement 2020
Edited by Gert Melville, Technische Universität
Dresden, Martial Staub, University of Sheffield
English edition supervised by Francis G. Gentry and
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Tim Barnwell
The first online collection of Brill’s flagship series in intellectual Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages offers an accessible
history (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History) presents new yet engaging coverage of medieval European history and
approaches to history, the history of philosophy and theology, culture, c. 500-c. 1500, in a series of themed articles, taking an
and the history of ideas. Special attention is given to the use of interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Presenting a broad
2 interdisciplinary methods and insights, such as those of cultural range of topics current in research, the encyclopedia is dedicated
anthropology, semiotics and linguistic analysis. Occasionally to all aspects of medieval life, organized in eight sections:
volumes contain papers of eminent scholars and proceedings of Society; Faith and Knowledge; Literature; Fine Arts and Music;
conferences, which would otherwise be difficult to obtain. Economy; Technology; Living Environments and Conditions;
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and Constitutive Historical Events and Regions. This thematic
Includes the subseries Brill’s Studies in Art, Art History and structure makes the encyclopedia a true reference work for
Intellectual History and Brill’s Texts and Sources in Intellectual Medieval Studies as a whole.
History.
It is accessible and concise enough for quick reference, while
Brill´s Studies in Intellectual History Online, Supplement 2019 will also providing a solid grounding in a new topic with a good level
include all titles published in the series Brill´s Studies in Intellectual of detail, since many of its articles are longer than traditional
History with copyright year 2019. encyclopedia entries. The encyclopedia is supported by an
extensive bibliography, updated with the most recent works and
adapted to suit the needs of an Anglophone audience.
This is an English translation of the second edition (2013) of the
well-known German-language Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters,
published by Primus Verlag / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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Online Resources
Brill’s Encyclopedia of The International Aristotle
Hinduism Online Bibliography
Editor-in-Chief: Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Presented and Maintained by Richard Ingardia, St
Bergen John’s University, USA
Associate Editors: Helene Basu, University of
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Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich,
and Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all The International Aristotle Bibliography Online is a comprehensive
the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its essays are original research tool giving access to over 50,000 books, journal articles,
work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. book chapters, book reviews and dissertations on the philosopher
The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view Aristotle and his influence. The bibliography covers more than 3
of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and 100 years of publication in a broad range of languages. As such, it
methods in the academic study of a religion that is both an presents an invaluable resource for all those interested in (ancient)
ancient historical tradition and a flourishing tradition today. The philosophy. Under the continued editorship of Richard Ingardia,
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encyclopedia embraces the greatest possible diversity, plurality, the bibliography will be updated every six months with hundreds
and heterogeneity, thus emphasizing that Hinduism encompasses of the most recent publications, as well as with additional entries
a variety of regional traditions as well as a global world religion. from previous years. The Aristotle Bibliography is the most
Presenting all essays and research from the heralded printed complete database on Aristotelian scholarship available on the
edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now available in a fully web.
searchable, dynamic digital format. The service will include all
content from the six printed volumes. Features and Benefits
- International bibliography of publications in European languages
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• Keyword and full-text search. - Covering the period of 1900 to the present, with some earlier
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Online Resources
Library of Contemporary Philosophy in the Islamic
Jewish Philosophers Online World Online: 8th-10th
Editor-in-Chief: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona
Centuries
State University
Edited by Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zürich,
Editor: Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester
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Rotraud Hansberger, LMU Munich and Peter
Adamson, LMU Munich
The Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Online is the Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th - 10th Centuries is a
online version of Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers. It comprehensive and unprecedented reference work devoted to the
showcases outstanding Jewish thinkers who have made lasting history of philosophy in the realms of Islam in its formative period:
4 contributions to constructive Jewish philosophy in the second from its beginnings in the eighth century up to the tenth century
half of the 20th century. Each volume is devoted to one particular AD. Both major and minor figures are covered, giving details of
thinker and is meant to show the thinker’s relationship to the biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of
Jewish philosophical past and to contemporary Jewish existence. each author’s works. It covers the period when philosophy began
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Each volume follows the same structure: an overview essay, several to blossom thanks to the translation of Greek scientific works into
seminal essays by the philosopher, an interview with the editors, Arabic and the emergence of autochthonous intellectual traditions
and a select bibliography of 120 items. Together the volumes within Islam. Philosophy in the Islamic World Online: 8th - 10th
in the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers will feature Centuries is of unparalleled significance to anyone doing serious
the diversity and vitality of contemporary Jewish philosophy, research on philosophy in the Islamic world: a unique source for
will stimulate discussion on Jewish philosophical response to both for specialists and graduate students.
contemporary challenges, and will chart new paths for Jewish
philosophy in the 21st century. Philosophy in the Islamic World is also available in print, starting
with Volume 1 (the eighth to tenth centuries) as the first part of a
Available in print and electronically, the books in the Library projected 4 Volume-set. This is the English version of the relevant
of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers will be ideal for use in volume of the Ueberweg, the most authoritative German reference
diverse educational settings (e.g., college-level courses, rabbinic work on the history of philosophy (Philosophie in der Islamischen
seminaries, adult Jewish learning, and interreligious dialogue). Welt Band I: 8.–10. Jahrhundert., Basel: Schwabe, 2012).
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Online Resources
Philosophia Antiqua Online Religious Studies, Theology and
Edited by K.A. Algra, F.A.J. de Haas, J. Mansfeld, C.J.
Philosophy E-Books Online
Rowe, D.T. Runia, Ch. Wildberg Collection 2020
The online collection of Philosophia Antiqua the leading series Brill’s Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online,
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specializing in books on Ancient Philosophy, covering the entire Collection 2019 is the electronic version of the book publication
history of the subject from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle program of Brill in the field of Religious Studies, Theology and
and the Stoics to the Neoplatonists of late Antiquity. All volumes in Philosophy in 2019.
the series have now been digitized and are included in this online
collection. Coverage
Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy, Christianity, History of
This collection contains volume 1 up and until volume 147 (titles Religion, Religion & Society, Missionary Studies
published in 2017 are included). 5
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to be underrepresented in the literature, for example Hellenistic - Full text chapters presented in PDF format
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philosophy, the sceptical tradition, Galen and other non-Platonist - DOI at title and chapter level
authors of later Antiquity, but this merely reflects a shifting - Title lists available in different formats
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This E-Book Collection is part of Brill’s Religious Studies, Theology
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Vols. 151-153
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Aesthetics & Cultural Theory
series
Studies in Somaesthetics
August 2019
Series Editor: Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University, Hardback (xii, 321 pp.)
USA ISBN 9789004411128
Price € 120 / US$ 144
E-ISBN 9789004411135
This series aims to publish monographs and anthologies of new E-Price € 120 / US$ 144
research in the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. The Studies in Somaesthetics, 2
field can be briefly defined as the critical study and meliorative
cultivation of the soma as our medium of perceptual appreciation Bodies in the Streets: The
(aesthesis) and performance but also as the site of our expressive Somaesthetics of City Life
self-fashioning. Somaesthetics is, therefore, concerned with a wide
diversity of knowledge forms, discourses, social practices and
Edited by Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic
institutions, cultural traditions and values, and bodily disciplines
University
that structure (or could improve) such somatic understanding and
cultivation
ISSN: 2451-8646 brill.com/sis Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges
of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from
a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the
aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city
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streets.
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June 2019 April 2019 June 2019
Paperback (xvi, 332 pp.) Paperback (xiv, 167 pp.) Hardback (xii, 264 pp.)
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At the Interface / Probing At the Interface / Probing Value Inquiry Book Series /
the Boundaries, 122 the Boundaries, 119 Philosophy of Film, 332
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Storytelling: Global Writing Spaces Plato and the Moving
Reflections on Narrative Writing as Transformative, Image
Scholarly and Creative Practice
Tracy Ann Hayes, University of Cumbria Shai Biderman, Tel Aviv University, and
Esthir Lemi, University of Athens Michael Weinman, Bard College Berlin
Theresa Edlmann, University of South
Ekaterina Midgette, College of Saint Rose
Africa, and Laurinda Brown, University Jessica Seymour, HU University of Applied
of Bristol Sciences, Utrecht
This book focuses on storytelling and Drawing from a variety of disciplines and Plato and the Moving Image shows how
human life by exploring the possibilities theoretical frameworks, we examine space and why debates in the philosophy of film
of narrative approaches across numerous and its influence on writing practice. can be advanced through the study of the
disciplines and in diverse contexts; stories Practitioners explore the effect of space on role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and vice
are humanity’s oldest way of making their own writing, while others focus on versa.
meaning of our past, present and future. understanding how famous writers lived
and worked, and how they used space in
their stories.
Aesthetics & Cultural Theory
series
Consciousness, Literature November 2019 May 2019
and the Arts Hardback (x, 174 pp.)
ISBN 9789004409538
Hardback (x, 206 pp.)
ISBN 9789004404434
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Consciousness, Literature Consciousness, Literature
This series is a scholarly line of books
and the Arts, 56 and the Arts, 55
consisting of monographs in the English Imprint: Brill | Rodopi Imprint: Brill | Rodopi
language, dealing with a wide variety of
areas, problems, and applications within Stoicism and Performance Philosophizing Brecht
the broad field of consciousness studies in A Joyful Materialism Critical Readings on Art,
relation to literature and the arts.
Consciousness, Social Theory and
ISSN: 1573-2193 brill.com/cla
Cormac Power, Northumbria University Performance
at Newcastle
Edited by Norman Roessler, Temple
University, and Anthony Squiers, Tarrant
County College and Universität Passau
Power’s Stoicism and Performance offers This interdisciplinary anthology unites
new perspectives on contemporary scholars with the notion that Bertolt
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theatre and performance debates. By Brecht is a missing link in bridging diverse
introducing Stoicism as a performative discourses in social philosophy and
philosophy that radicalises forms of aesthetics—an essential read for all those
thinking and experience, key themes such interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural
as performativity, embodiment, emotion, theorist and theatre practitioners.
affect and spectatorship are re-examined.
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Philosophy, Literature, September 2019
Hardback (x, 117 pp.)
June 2019
Hardback (xxx, 209 pp.)
and Politics ISBN 9789004375321
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Value Inquiry Book Series / Value Inquiry Book Series /
International University Philosophy, Literature, and Philosophy, Literature, and
Politics, 339 Politics, 334
Philosophy, Literature, and Politics (PLP) Imprint: Brill | Rodopi Imprint: Brill | Rodopi
offers studies of literature and literary
history in the context of philosophical and Wind and Whirlwind: Audacity of the Spirit
political ideas. The series also spans the
discursive territory in which philosophy is
Utopian and Dystopian Vitali I. Betaneli, USSR Academy of
produced by literature and vice-versa. Themes in Literature and Sciences, and Peter R. Weisensel,
PLP is a special series in VIBS, the Value Philosophy Macalester College
Inquiry Book Series.
Ágnes Heller, New School of Social
brill.com/plp Research New York, and Riccardo
Mazzeo
In Wind and Whirlwind Ágnes Heller and Audacity of the Spirit by A.F. Losev
Riccardo Mazzeo analyse utopias and demonstrates the merits of the dialectical
dystopias in the works of philosophers and method to understand antiquity, history,
novelists and highlight the importance culture and philosophy. The book is a
to find one’s way avoiding the charming guide to dialectics for beginners and a
destructive traps. major philosopher’s summing-up of his
reflections to a general audience. It is
an English translation from the Russian
original Дерзание духа (Politizdat Moskva,
1988), translated by Peter R. Weisensel and
Vitali I. Betaneli.
Aesthetics & Cultural Theory
November 2019
Hardback (approx. 263
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ISBN 9789004410411 Hardback (xvi, 298 pp.) Hardback
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Studies, 38 Cross/Cultures, 209 Faux Titre, 438
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Anarchism and the Avant- Philosophical Foundations Silence, Implicite et
Garde of the African Humanities Non-Dit chez Rousseau /
Radical Arts and Politics in through Postcolonial Silence, the Implicit and
Perspective Perspectives the Unspoken in Rousseau
Carolin Kosuch, University of Göttingen, Edited by Helen Yitah, University of Edité par/edited by Brigitte Weltman-
Göttingen Ghana, and Helen Lauer, University of Aron, University of Florida, Ourida
Dar es Salaam Mostefai, Brown University, et/and Peter
Westmoreland, University of Florida
Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical These essays by scholars in postcolonial Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau/
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Arts and Politics in Perspective offers a fresh studies demonstrate that the humanities’ Silence, the Implicit, and the Unspoken in
approach to the encounter of the classical relevance lies, not in creating a “world Rousseau explores the role of silence in
anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic culture” to address the world’s problems, Rousseau’s work, the ways silence operates,
and literary avant-gardes of the same but in critical analyses of alterity, and different approaches to it that
period, probing its dimensions and limits. difference, and how the Other is perceived, Rousseau takes.
defined and subdued.
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September 2019 June 2019
August 2019 Paperback (approx. 180 Hardback (xiv, 365 pp.)
Hardback (xx, 326 pp., 79 pp.) ISBN 9789004398337
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E-Price € 81 / US$ 98 At the Interface / Probing / Contemporary Russian
Studies in Art & Materiality, the Boundaries, 128 Philosophy, 333
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Conceptualism and Bodies in Flux A Philosophy of the
Materiality Embodiments at the End of Possible
Matters of Art and Politics Anthropocentrism Modalities in Thought and Culture
Edited by Christian Berger, The Hanan Muzaffar, American University Mikhail Epstein, Emory University
Courtauld Institute of Art, London of Kuwait, and Barbara Braid, Szczecin
University
Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters This volume discusses fluidity of the post- In this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a
of Art and Politics underscores the human bodies on various cultural and systematic theory of modalities (possible,
significance of materials and materiality social examples – from the cyber relations actual, necessary) and their impact on the
within Conceptual art and conceptualism to others and to self, through fragmented, philosophy and culture of modernity and
more broadly. It challenges the notion of prosetheticised, monstrous or augmented postmodernity, focusing on the creative
conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti- body, to the dis/utopian fantasies. potentials of possibilistic thinking for the
materialist enterprise, and highlights the humanities.
political implications thereof.Asian Philosophy
series
Modern Chinese
Philosophy April 2020
Hardback (approx. 364 pp.)
March 2020
Hardback (approx. 463 pp.)
ISBN 9789004423657 ISBN 9789004421578
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Modern Chinese Philosophy, Modern Chinese Philosophy,
This series collects authoritative, innovative 20 19
and informative studies in Chinese
philosophy from the late Qing period to Becoming Human The Annotated Critical
contemporary times, including research Li Zehou’s Ethics Laozi
on New Confucian philosophy, modern With Contemporary Explication
Buddhist philosophy, Chinese Marxist Jana S. Rošker, University of Ljubljana
philosophy, modern Daoist philosophy, as
and Traditional Commentary
well as works of a comparative nature.
Chen Guying, Peking University, Paul
ISSN: 1875-9386 brill.com/mcp J. D’Ambrosio, East China Normal
University, and Xiao Ouyang, Wuhan
University
This book offers a critical introduction Chen Guying’s Laozi includes some of the
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of Li Zhou’s ethics. Li, who is among the most significant traditional commentary
most influential contemporary Chinese and influential contemporary scholarship.
philosophers, takes Chinese ethics as a This book completely changed Laozi
basis for his elaborations on Western ideas, studies in China, and its English translation
aiming to develop a new global ethics. gives scholars a unique inroad to Chinese
perspectives on the Laozi.
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Numen Book Series
February 2019
Hardback (XIV, 333) August 2019
ISBN 9789004396296
Series Editors: Steven Engler, Mount Hardback (viii + 273 pp.)
Price € 171 / US$ 206 Royal University, Calgary, Canada, ISBN 9789004405332
E-ISBN 9789004396302 Richard King, University of Kent, UK, Price € 124 / US$ 149
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Wiegers, University of Amsterdam, The
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The Ethics of Homelessness is a compilation Naturalism and Democracy, first published
of essays analysing the philosophical, legal in German in 2014, presents a long-awaited
and social implications of the seemingly commentary on Spinoza’s Political Treatise
intractable condition that people endure (Tractatus politicus). It gives a detailed
without a home, where their fundamental analysis of Spinoza’s latest theory of State
human rights, autonomy and privacy are and Law, with special attention to his
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on influential Classical scholars and the Reception of Plutarch Reception of Socrates
the history of classical scholarship) in
later centuries and in various scholarly Edited by Sophia Xenophontos, Edited by Christopher Moore, The
disciplines. The Series will show a University of Glasgow, and Katerina
systematic coverage of subjects.
Pennsylvania State University
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balanced accounts at an advanced level, as Plutarch offers the first comprehensive Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore,
well as synthesis of debate and the state of analysis of Plutarch’s rich reception provides three-dozen studies of nearly
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Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the innovative intellectual, moral exemplar,
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modern era, across various cultures in and singular Athenian.
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Edited by Gabriele Cornelli, Brasilia, Hardback (viii, 332 pp.) Hardback (x, 190 pp.)
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Brill’s Plato Studies Series aims to gather 3 2
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contributions, in order to identify debates Thinking, Knowing, Acting: The Gatekeeper
and trends within the study of Plato and Epistemology and Ethics Narrative Voice in Plato’s
to provide a holistic understanding of
the wide range of issues related to Plato’s
in Plato and Ancient Dialogues
philosophy. Of special significance for the Platonism
Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University
series will be the examination of Plato’s
literary style and its relationship to his Edited by Mauro Bonazzi, Utrecht
theoretical project as, perhaps, one of the University, Angela Ulacco, Albert-
central problems in the study of Plato and Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and
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Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s
and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the
aims to offer a fresh perspective on the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s
correlation between epistemology and transmitted dialogues. The book explores
ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition the dialogues as works of literary fiction,
from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating giving special emphasis to the issue of
the social, juridical and theoretical narrative perspective.
premises of their philosophy.History of Philosophy: Ancient
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Plutarch is still a key figure for our understanding of the first might be discussed.
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together the most significant Plutarch scholarship of recent years,
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platonisme de Plutarque donne (Mulierum virtutes) Plutarch on Religion, Myth,
Philosopher en commun, tourner sa Introduzione, testo critico, and Magic
pensée vers Dieu traduzione italiana e note di Essays in Honor of Aurelio Pérez
commento Jiménez
Françoise Frazier
Edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, A cura di Fabio Tanga, Università degli Edited by Delfim Leão, University of
14 University of Groningen Studi di Salerno Coimbra, and Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta,
University of Groningen
Françoise Frazier’s Quelques aspects du Questo volume contiene edizione critica, The title of this volume A Man of Many
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platonisme de Plutarque: Philosopher en traduzione italiana e note di commento al Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and
commun, Tourner sa pensée vers Dieu trattato di Plutarco Mulierum Virtutes. Il Magic. Essays in honour of Aurelio Pérez
includes 20 essays on several philosophical testo tradotto e commentato è preceduto Jiménez is first and foremost a coalescing
tractates in Plutarch’s Moralia. Interesting da una introduzione generale sull’opuscolo homage to Plutarch and to Aurelio, and
both for Classists and Historians of Religion e da alcuni capitoli dedicati alla tradizione to the way they have been inspiring (as
alike, the chapters provide an in-depth testuale, alla fortuna, allo stile, al rapporto master and indirect disciple) a multitude
interpretation of several essential aspects con i modelli letterari, i Moralia e la of readers in their path to knowledge, here
of Plutarch’s philosophical dialogues that tematica femminile dell’opera. metonymically represented by the scholars
pays special heed both to the divine and the who offer their tribute to them.
communication between God and humans. This volume is a critical edition of the
The book includes three sections. While the Mulierum Virtutes, accompanied by an The analysis developed throughout the
first is mainly concerned with Plutarch’s Italian translation and commentary. several contributions favors a philological
Amatorius, the second focuses on Plutarch’s In addition, introductory chapters approach of wide spectrum, i.e., stemming
relationship to Plato, especially in his provide an overview of the work’s from literary and linguistic aspects, it
myths of the afterlife. The third part, finally, textual transmission, its reception and projects them into their cultural, religious,
deals with an important investigation that style, as well as its gender thematics, its philosophical, and historical framework.
occupied Professor Frazier lately, namely relationship to earlier literary models and The works were organized into two broad
the concept of pistis in the religious context its place within the Moralia as a whole. sections, respectively devoted to the Lives
of the first centuries CE. and to the Moralia.History of Philosophy: Ancient
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Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
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Phaedrus Intellectual Context Finding the Harmony of the
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of Iowa, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, Donna M. Altimari Adler, University of
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Plato’s Phaedrus is a collection of twelve expounds how literary texts present Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes
essays that consider aspects of Hermias’ philosophical ideas in an enigmatic and a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds
philosophy, including his notions of the coded form, offering an alternative path the harmonic cosmos, mathematically,
soul, logic, and method of exegesis. The to the divine truths. The Neoplatonist at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a
essays also consider Hermias’ work in the Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs is number generator. Plato's primary number
tradition of Neoplatonism, particularly one of the most significant allegorical sequence, she argues, yields a matrix
in relation to the thought of Iamblichus interpretation handed down to us from defining a sophisticated harmony of the
and Proclus. The collection grapples with Antiquity. This monograph, exclusively spheres. She stresses the Decad as the
the question of the originality of Hermias’ dedicated to the analysis of On the Cave pattern governing both human perception
commentary—the only extant work of of Nymphs, demonstrates that Porphyry and the generation of all things, in the
Hermias—which is a series of lectures interprets Homer’s verse from Odyssey Timaeus, including the World Soul and
notes of his teacher, Syrianus. 13.102-112 to convey his philosophical musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely
thoughts, particularly on the material identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus
world, relationship between soul and of severance and solves other thorny
body and the salvation of the soul through problems of textual interpretation.
the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. The
Homeric cave of the nymphs with two
gates is a station where the souls descend
into genesis and ascend to the intelligible
realm. Porphyry associates Odysseus’ long
wanderings with the journey of the soul
and its salvation from the irrational to
rational through escape from all toils of the
material world.History of Philosophy: Ancient
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Enlightenment Culture Friendship Area Colloquium in
New Approaches and Perspectives Conceptions of Reciprocity in Ancient Philosophy
Classical Greece Volume XXXIV (2018)
Edited by Felicity Loughlin, University
of St Andrews, and Alexandre Johnston, Tazuko Angela van Berkel, University of Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., Boston College, and
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Leiden Daniel P. Maher, Assumption College
This volume explores the place of antiquity In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Volume 34 contains papers and
in Enlightenment Europe. It considers Angela van Berkel offers an account of commentaries presented to the
the contexts, questions, and agendas that emerging social theory on reciprocity, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient
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shaped eighteenth-century engagements philia and charis in the Greek world of the Philosophy during academic year 2017-
with the ancient world, shedding new light 5th and 4th centuries B.C. 18. Works: Parmenides, Metaphysics, IX.8,
on familiar figures and recovering forgotten Nicomachean Ethics, I.12. Topics: meaning
chapters in this European story. of “one,” generation and activity, language
and techne, Epicurean pity, praising and
prizing.
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Nadja Germann, Simo Knuuttila, Martin Investigating Medieval Investigating Medieval
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forum for very high-quality monographs of Logic Puzzles
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medieval philosophy, written in such a
Logic 13th and 14th Centuries
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interesting to mainstream philosophers and
historians of philosophy in Anglophone Paul Thom, University of Sydney Edited by Elena Băltuță, Babeș-Bolyai
philosophy departments. University
Thom interprets Kilwardby’s science Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories
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of logic as a logic of intensions with of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th
its own proof theory and semantics. Centuries is an anthology of texts offering
This comprehensive reconstruction of an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval
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master to be one of the most interesting offers historical and systematic approaches
logicians of the thirteenth century. to themes and questions that have shaped
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