Late Antique Epistemology : Other Ways to Truth (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Vassilopoulou PART I: RITUALS, RELIGION, AND REALITY Porphyry and the Debate over Traditional Religious Practices; A.Busine St John in Amelius' Seminar; J.Dillon Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus' Golden Ratio; E.F.Kutash Having Sex with the One: Erotic Mysticism in Plotinus and the Problem of Metaphor; Z.Mazur PART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES Ibn T Ufayl and the Wisdom of the East: On Apprehending the Divine; T.Kukkonen Plotinus, Porphyry, and India: A Re-Examination; J.Lacrosse Animation of Statues in Ancient Civilizations and Neoplatonism; A.Uzdavinys PART III: ART AND POETRY Platonists and the Teaching of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity; M.Heath Proclus's Notion of Poetry; O.Kuisma The Homeric Tradition in Ammonius and Asclepius; C-P.Manolea PART IV: LATER INFLUENCES Nous and Geist: Self-Identity and Methodological Solipsism in Plotinus and Hegel; R.M.Berchman Plotinus, Leibniz, and Berkeley on Determinism; D.Bertini Proclus Americanus; J.Bregman Ecology's Future Debt to Plotinus and Neoplatonism; K.Corrigan Heathen Martyrs or Romish Idolaters: Socrates and Plato in Eighteenth-Century England; C.Poster Conclusion; S.Clark Glossary Index