Reading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato ― Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien

Historians of philosophy from Europe and the US begin the two-volume set by looking at what many consider the beginnings of Western thought, and at the mists of time from which it precipitated. Their topics include the structure of the eye and its cosmological function in Empedocles, Philolaus and the central fire, Socrates on the definition of figure in the Meno, and dialectic by negation in three late dialogues. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Suzanne Stern-Gillet, M.Phil. (Greek and Latin), D.Phil. (Philosophy) is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bolton. She has published extensively on ancient philosophy (concepts of selfhood and theories of art), including Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendship (New York, 1995).

Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His most recent books are Reading Plotinus: a practical guide to Neoplatonism (2004), Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument and Myth in the Symposium (2004) (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan), and Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (2007) (with John Turner).