Nicholas Banner is a classical researcher concentrating on ancient philosophy and religion. He is especially interested in Platonisms, in the limits of thought and language, and in the problems of being and consciousness (and the points at which these problems overlap). He writes popular books on academic subjects. His interest in Platonism informs a number of musical projects including an old-time country band and electronic bass music and spoken word performances.
Part I. The Cultural Roots of Platonist Philosophic Silence: 1. De
philosophorum Graecorum silentio mystico: preliminaries; 2. The silent
philosopher; 3. Perennial wisdom and Platonist tradition; 4. Plotinus and
'the Ancients': tradition, truth and transcendence; Part II. The
Transcendent Absolute, the Ineffable and Plotinian Poetics of
Transcendence: 5. The development of the Transcendent Absolute in the
Middle Platonist milieu; 6. The Transcendent Absolute and the ineffability
of reality in Plotinus; 7. The poetics of transcendence in Plotinus.
