The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin · Pauliina Remes

Jul 2014 · Routledge

About this ebook

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts:

• (Re)sources, instruction and interaction
• Methods and Styles of Exegesis
• Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives
• Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self
• Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology
• Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics
• The legacy of Neoplatonism.

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion.

About the author

Pauliina Remes is University Lecturer in Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the author of Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the "We" (2007), and Neoplatonism (2008), and the editor of Ancient Philosophy of the Self (2008, with J. Sihvola) and Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy (2007, with S. Heinämaa and V. Lähteenmäki).

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

is Associate Professor of Classics and a core faculty in the History and Philosophy of Science Program at the Florida State University, USA. She has published on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, including Plotinus on Number (2009).