{"product_id":"aristotle-transformed-the-ancient-commentators-and-their-influence-9781350123656","title":"Aristotle Transformed The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Richard Sorabji \u003c\/b\u003eis Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK. He is the world's leading scholar on the commentators on Aristotle and founder and co-editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, published by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of the three sourcebooks on the ancient commentators: \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of the Commentators, 200600 AD\u003c\/i\u003e, vols 13.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A]nyone working in this subject area would be strongly advised to buy and read [this book] ... The amount of scholarship that is surveyed is jaw-dropping, and S[orabji]'s command of detail is impressive. * Classics for All Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eThis hefty volume of 20 scholarly essays on the history, development, and influence of early Greek Aristotelian commentators is essentially a reprinting of the first edition (CH, Oct'90, 28-0896). For this second edition Sorabji (King's College London, UK) wrote a new introduction of some 40 pages, in which he summarizes and updates the essays and offers some critiques and revised interpretations based on new scholarship of the intervening 25 years. As Sorabji acknowledges, much of the content of the introduction is included and considered in more detail in Aristotle Re-interpreted: New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators (2016), also edited by Sorabji, which is intended as a sequel to Aristotle Transformed. The essays compiled in Aristotle Transformed constitute indispensable scholarship on ancient commentary tradition, but either of the editions would seem sufficient, given the forthcoming Aristotle Re-interpreted. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefaceto the First Edition Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction to Second Edition   1. The ancient commentators on Aristotle \u003ci\u003eRichard Sorabji\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Review of the \u003ci\u003eCommentaria in Aristotelem Graeca\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl Praechter\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The earliest Aristotelian commentators \u003ci\u003eHans B. Gottschalk\u003c\/i\u003e 4. The school of Alexander? \u003ci\u003eRobert W. Sharples\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle? \u003ci\u003eHenry J. Blumenthal\u003c\/i\u003e 6. The harmony of Plotinus and Aristotle according to Porphyry \u003ci\u003ePierre Hadot\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Porphyry’s legacy to logic: a reconstruction \u003ci\u003eSten Ebbesen\u003c\/i\u003e 8. How did Syrianus regard Aristotle? \u003ci\u003eH.D. Saffrey\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Infinite power \u003ci\u003eimpressed\u003c\/i\u003e: the transformation of Aristotle’s physics and theology \u003ci\u003eRichard Sorabji\u003c\/i\u003e 10. The metaphysics of Ammonius son of Hermeias \u003ci\u003eKoenraad Verrycken\u003c\/i\u003e 11. The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology \u003ci\u003eKoenraad Verrycken\u003c\/i\u003e 12. The life and work of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic sources \u003ci\u003eIlsetraut Hadot\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Neoplatonic elements in the \u003ci\u003ede Anima\u003c\/i\u003e commentaries \u003ci\u003eHenry J. Blumenthal\u003c\/i\u003e 14. The Alexandrian commentators and the introductions to their commentaries \u003ci\u003eL.G. Westerink\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Boethius’ commentaries on Aristotle \u003ci\u003eJames Shiel\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Boethius as an Aristotelian commentator \u003ci\u003eSten Ebbesen\u003c\/i\u003e 17. An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena \u003ci\u003eRobert Browning\u003c\/i\u003e 18. The Greek commentators on Aristotle’s \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eH.P.F. Mercken\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Philoponus, ‘Alexander’ and the origins of medieval logic \u003ci\u003eSten Ebbesen\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Aristotle’s doctrine of abstraction in the commentators \u003ci\u003eIan Mueller\u003c\/i\u003e Note on the frontispiece: ‘Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias’ by Ulocrino \u003ci\u003eDonald R. Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e  Select bibliography Index locorum General index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187286729047,"sku":"9781350123656","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristotle-transformed-the-ancient-commentators-and-their-influence-9781350123656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}