The new Cambridge companion to Plotinus /

"The present volume is the 'successor' to The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (1996). Over the last 25 years, there has been an enormous increase in published work on Plotinus and on late ancient Platonism generally. In addition, many scholars who had not even begun their careers 25 y...

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Group Author: Gerson, Lloyd P.; Wilberding, James
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge companions to philosophy
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Summary: "The present volume is the 'successor' to The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (1996). Over the last 25 years, there has been an enormous increase in published work on Plotinus and on late ancient Platonism generally. In addition, many scholars who had not even begun their careers 25 years ago are now working intensely in this area. This fact is reflected in the list of authors of this volume, none of whom appeared in the previous work and most of whom had not yet even begun their careers when the original Companion appeared"--
Carrier Form: xxiv, 471 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781108726238
1108726232
9781108488341
110848834X
Index Number: B693
CLC: B502.44
Call Number: B502.44/N532
Contents: Plato and Aristotle in the Enneads /
Plotinus, Gnosticism, and Christianity /
From Plotinus to Proclus /
Plotinus and the theory of forms /
The embodied soul /
Natural philosophy.
Eternity and time /
Matter and evil /