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CATALOG 2 0 0 8 Philosophy Leiden, January 2008 Dear customer, Brill is pleased to present you with this entirely new catalog of Philosophy publications. Ever since Brill was founded in 1683, it has offered a wide range of Philosophy titles. With a traditional emphasis on areas such as Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Intellectual History and Jewish and Islamic Philosophy, our Philosophy program is now expanding into other areas as well. These new areas include Contemporary Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. For the first time, a general collection of Brill’s Philosophy titles is now presented together in one dedicated catalog. This catalog presents you with the best of both old and new. It is a carefully selected overview of Brill’s Philosophy titles of the last ten years. It is organized according to subject area and by book series. The products presented range from dedicated monographs to textbooks, encyclopedias, bibliographies and journals. 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Please note that due to fluctuations in the exchange rate, the US dollar amounts charged to credit card holders may vary slightly from the prices advertised.ri Contents P HILO S O P HY BRILL C ata LOG 2008 2 Ancient Philosophy 23 Contemporary Philosophy 42 Intellectual History 55 Islamic Philosophy 65 Jewish Philosophy 69 Medieval Philosophy 88 Philosophy of Religion 92 Primary Source Collections 94 Journals 100 Authors Index New and Forthcoming Titles Ancient Philosophy WWW.BRILL.NL/AMMTC Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition Edited by Robert M. Berchman, Dowling College and Bard College, and John. F. Finamore, University of Iowa Originally conceived, the series covers studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, which means it covers ancient philosophy in general but also the tradition in its medieval, modern, and post-modern “horizons.” This means that the series publishes works, historically and thematically, across the whole “Platonic tradition.” Die Übersetzungen der Elementatio Order From Disorder Theologica des Proklos und Ihre Proclus’ Doctrine of Evil and its Roots Bedeutung für den Proklostext in Ancient Platonism John Phillips, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, USA Hans-Christian Günther, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany HY P O S • July 2007 • ISBN 978 90 04 16018 7 HILO P • June 2007 • Hardback (xii, 284 pp.) • ISBN 978 90 04 16062 0 • List price EUR 109.- / US$ 153.- • Hardback (xvi, 224 pp.) • Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 139.- Texts and Contexts, Studies in Platonism, 2 • Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 5 Texts and Contexts, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 6 This study places the doctrine of evil of the Neoplatonist Proclus in its proper context, the exegetical tradition as it developed LOG 2008 The present book presents for the first time a detailed study of within the various schools of ancient Platonism, from Middle ata selected passages of the most important Georgian translation Platonism to early Neoplatonism. With regard to the evil of of a text of Greek philosophy: the translation of Proklos’ the body, there are chapters on the various interpretations of BRILL C Elementatio Theologica by the most eminent philosopher Plato’s notion of a pre-cosmic disorderly motion as the source of of the Georgian middle ages, Ioane Petrizi, who not only corporeal evil and on the role of what Platonists referred to as translated Proklos’ text, but also provided it with an extensive an irrational Nature in the origin of that motion. As for evil of commentary. The book discusses the paragraphs which are the soul, there are chapters dealing with the concept of an evil also extant in an Arabic translation of the early 9th century. World Soul and with the view that the evil that is ascribed to the The main scope of the book is to establish the relevance of human soul is a form of psychological weakness. the Georgian and Arabic translations for the history of the constitution of the text, but it provides also important insights John Phillips, Ph.D. (1980) in Classics, University of Wisconsin, in Petrizi’s method of translation and the philosophical is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of significance of his commentary. Tennessee at Chattanooga. Prof. Dr. H.-C. Günther, Professor for Classics in the Albert- Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. Ancient Philosophy Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern WWW.BRILL.NL/ASL Edited by Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Atlanta, John D. Turner, Aristoteles University of Nebraska-Lincoln Semitico-Latinus • May 2007 Der • ISBN 978 90 04 15841 2 • Hardback (xii, 284 pp.) Kategorienkommentar • List price EUR 125.- / US$ 186.- • Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts, von Abū l-Farağ Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 4 ʿAbdallāh ibn aṭ-Ṫayyib The present volume argues that Plato and Platonism should be understood not as a Text und Untersuchungen series of determinate doctrines or philosophical facts to be pinned down once and for all, but rather as an inexhaustible mine of possible trajectories. The book examines in Cleophea Ferrari this light different strands of Platonic thinking from the dialogues themselves through later Antiquity and the Medieval World into Modernity and Post-Modernity with new essays ranging from Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Natorp to Yeats, Levinas and Derrida. And also suggests the possibility of reading the dialogues and the whole tradition P resonating in and through them in new, unexpected ways. HILO S O P Full table of contents available on www.brill.nl HY Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. John D. Turner is Cotner Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. • May 2006 • ISBN 978 90 04 14903 8 BRILL C Porphyry Against the Christians • Cloth (xiv, 674 pp.) • List price EUR 207.- / US$ 279.- ata Robert M. Berchman • Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, 19 LOG 2008 The Commentary on the Categories by Abū l-Farağ ibn aṭ-Ṫayyib is an important representative of the Aristotelian • January 2007 tradition in Arabic culture. • ISBN 978 90 04 14811 6 • Hardback (xvi, 248 pp.) Cleophea Ferrari, Ph.D. (2001) in • List price EUR 114.- / US$ 170.- Classics, Arabic Philology and Philosophy, • Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts, Bochum University. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1 This volume is a translation of fragments and testimonia of Porphyry’s lost work Against the Christians. The first part of the work examines Author, Title, date of composition, and sources. The second part discusses the structure of Against the Christians. The third part focuses on the religious, philosophical, and cultural background of this text. The fourth section constitutes the translation of the fragments and testimonia of Against the Christians. This work is especially important for historians of religion, philosophy, and Biblical Studies for it is an excellent example of a pagan tradition of scriptural interpretation and criticism of Christianity.