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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF NEOPLATONISM

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. 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.

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. Heinmaa and V. Lhteenmki).

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. She has published on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, including Plotinus on Number (2009).

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF NEOPLATONISM

Edited by
Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

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Contents

Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

Harold Tarrant

Richard Sorabji

Gretchen Reydams-Schils and Franco Ferrari

John D. Turner

Vishwa Adluri

Han Baltussen

Andrew Smith

Luc Brisson

Marije Martijn

Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Jens Halfwassen

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin

Riccardo Chiaradonna

Jean-Marc Narbonne

Robbert M. van den Berg

Lloyd P. Gerson

John F. Finamore

Frederic M. Schroeder

Gwenalle Aubry

Pter Lautner

Alessandro Linguiti

James Wilberding

Kevin Corrigan

Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Bernard Collette-Dui

Peter Adamson

Pauliina Remes

Dominic J. OMeara

Panayiota Vassilopoulou

Dermot Moran

Dimitar Y. Dimitrov

Sarah Pessin

The appearance of this volume would have been impossible without the support of many individuals and institutions. Besides the contributors, we wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for upholding the Handbook to the highest standards of scholarship and giving it all in their comments; Michael Chase, Simon Fortier and Coralie Seizilles de Mazanco for their help in translating certain articles from French; Carl OBrien for translating Jens Halfwassens chapter from German with the assistance of Thomas Arnold and Tolga Ratzsch; Marcaline Boyd and Amanda Richard for their editorial assistance; Steven Gerrard and the production team at Acumen for their vision, and patience, at every stage of the project; Tony Bruce and the production team at Routledge for their wholehearted welcome of the book into their Handbooks series; the Department of Classics and the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University; the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, and its Understanding Agency Programme; the Florida State University Council on Research and Creativity; C. H. Beck for allowing here the appearance of an English translation of a chapter from Halfwassen (2004); University of Laval Press for allowing the appearance of a revised version of Finamore (2009); and University of London Press for allowing the appearance of an updated version of a chapter from Sorabji (2010). We are most in debt to the forgiving understanding of our families. But none of this would have been possible without a friendship that knows no limits and no borders, from the long Finnish summer days of Mikkeli to the cosy coffee houses of stormy Cardiff.