This text surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology…

What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first raised by Plato…

Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars-many commissioned especially for this volume-are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in…

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism’s claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more inner reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers…

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present offers an authoritative overview of the development of Western literary theory and criticism. In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

A reading of the death of Socrates as a self-sacrifice, with implications for ideas about suffering, wisdom, and the soul’s relationship to the body.

An English translation of a major work by the great Neoplatonist philosopher, whose commentary greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. It comprises a full account of Proclus’s own metaphysical…