Book chapter
An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and Plotinus
Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot be Touched, pp.57-73
Rowman & Littlefield
2019
Abstract
Whatever the broader challenges, complexities, and even frustrations of arranging another's manuscripts for publication, the added editorial difficulty of providing a posthumous organization to any individual's work was something even further compounded in the case of Plotinus, Porphyry explains in the introductory essay to the collection that would become known as the Enneads, by the fact that whenever his former teacher "had written anything he could never bear to go over it twice; even to read it through once was too much for him, as his eyesight did not serve him well for reading..."
Details
- Title
- An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and Plotinus
- Authors/Creators
- T. Flanagan (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- M. La Caze (Editor)M. Zolkos (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot be Touched, pp.57-73
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Identifiers
- 991005542570107891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher URL
- https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498593519/Contemporary-Perspectives-on-Vladimir-Jank%C3%A9l%C3%A9vitch-On-What-Cannot-Be-Touched
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