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This book makes accessible, to a wide audience, the thought of Evagrius and Gregory on the soul, in the context of ancient philosophy/theology and the Cappadocians generally. Corrigan argues that in these two figures we witness the birth of new forms of thought and of empirical science in a new key. Evagrius and Gregory are no mere receivers of a

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This book makes accessible, to a wide audience, the thought of Evagrius and Gregory on the soul, in the context of ancient philosophy/theology and the Cappadocians generally. Corrigan argues that in these two figures we witness the birth of new forms of thought and of empirical science in a new key. Evagrius and Gregory are no mere receivers of a
Autorenporträt
Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His most recent book publications are: Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument and Myth in the Symposium, (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan) University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004; Reading Plotinus: a practical introduction to Neoplatonism, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2004; Platonisms: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern, edited with John D. Turner, Brill: Leiden, 2007; two volumes: Reading Ancient Texts: The Presocratics and Plato. Essays in Honor of Denis O'Brien; Volume 1: The Presocratics and Plato. Volume 2: Aristotle and Neoplatonism, edited with Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Brill: Leiden, 2007; and with John D. Turner two volumes on Plato's Parmenides and its heritage, SBL Press: Atlanta, 2009: Volume 1: Plato's Parmenides: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism; and Volume 2: Plato's Parmenides: Its Reception in Neoplatonic, Jewish and Christian Texts.