Stephen Gersh aims in this fascinating collection to demonstrate “for the first time” that there is a “grand narrative” of Proclus’s influence in European thought. His introductory essay presents the demonstration in broad outlines, and the seventeen essays that follow flesh out his initial observations. This framing of the work—consisting of a series of essays on Proclus and his reception from Dionysius the Areopagite to Francesco Patrizi—casts it as a capstone of Gersh’s more than forty years of scholarship on Proclus (...) and the Platonic tradition. In “Proclus as theologian,” Gersh distinguishes within Proclus’s theology between “reason” and “revelation” suggesting that we take the two... (shrink)

Professor Wilshire, in his latest book, gives us a collection of essays which constitutes an oblique critique of what is termed analytic philosophy. I am not the first to review this book, but I must aim to give the reader something that has not appeared in previous reviews, namely a thematic overview of the book. I also want to attempt to describe who Wilshire’s opponents are, since this has been the subject of some contention.