A New Study of Plotinus Reviewed
John Dillon has reviewed (very positively) the recent Plotinian study by J.-F. Pradeau. Of special interest might be Chapter 8 on ‘The One: First, Ineffable, Ungraspable’, which approaches Plotinus’ fascinatingly […]
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cfp: Prometheus Trust, Towards a Philosophic Society
Call for papers: Towards a Philosophic Society The fifteenth annual conference of the Prometheus Trust Mancetter, Warwickshire, 26th to 28th June 2020 Is humanity being pushed towards philosophy by force […]
in memoriam: John D. Turner
Yesterday I received the very sad news of the passing of John D. Turner, who died on Saturday, 26 October 2019, at his home in Nebraska. He was among family […]
New book: Catana, Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought
Leo Catana, Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought (International Archives of the History of Ideas 227; Leiden: Springer, 2019). This book promises to be a stimulating study in the […]
Sinatti on Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
A new book on demons and angels in Neoplatonism has just been reviewed in BMCR by Cesare Sinatti – you can read the review here. The book is: Luc Brisson, […]
conference: ‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’
The following announcement is courtesy of the ‘philosophie-antique’ mailing list. Cudworth himself was hardly ancient (he lived and wrote in the 17th century), but he and other ‘Cambridge Platonists’ were […]
New book: Wrestling with Archons: Gnosticism as a Critical Theory of Culture
Jonathan Cahana-Blum has been publishing for years at the intersection of ancient Gnosticism and modern Continental philosophy and social theory, a project that now sees publication in a new monograph, […]
