This book, a history of a religious category of ancient philosophy, is the first synthesis on the notion of daimon in the Platonic tradition. It focuses on the relationship between demonology and, respectively, cosmology, the philosophical hermeneutics of religion and theories of the soul.

Histoire d'une categorie religieuse de la philosophie ancienne, ce livre represente la premiere synthese sur la notion de daimon dans la tradition platonicienne. Il etudie les relations de la demonologie avec la cosmologie, l'hermeneutique philosophique de la religion et les theories de l'ame.