Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

Each brief chapter immediately captures the interest of the reader in a way that is entertaining, informative, and a genuine pleasure to read. Excellent notes and bibliography of further reading. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE *The understanding that philosophy is a purely rational endeavor is a form of presentism that arises out of modern rationalism and, more generally… we should be grateful to Adamson for addressing the issue and for providing students of Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy with an accessible overview of the respective material. * Speculum 98⁄4 *This magisterial volume…is an extraordinary achievement… * Paradigm Explorer *

Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King’s College London from 2000 until 2012. Adamson subsequently moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, and he is the host of the popular History of Philosophy podcast.