Description
Surveys this influential concept from antiquity through medieval theological debates to Renaissance Neoplatonism and etiquette guides.
About the Author
Carl Sean O'Brien is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg. He has published The Demiurge in Ancient Thought (Cambridge, 2015), and edited (with Jens Halfwassen and Tobias Dangel) Seele und Materie im Neuplatonismus (2016). Joh Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. His numerous publications include The Middle Platonists (1977), The Heirs of Plato (2003), Salt and Olives: Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece (2004), (with Sarah Klitenic Wear) Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition: Despoiling the Hellenes (2007) and The Roots of Platonism: The Origins and Chief Features of a Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge, 2019). In addition he edited (with A. A. Long) The Question of 'Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy (1988) and translated Alcinous, The Handbook of Platonism (1993). He received a Gold Medal from the Royal Irish Academy in 2005.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108423229
Author Carl Sean O'Brien
Format Hardback
Page Count 450
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 640g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 23mm