From Iamblichus to Eriugena: The Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition

From Iamblichus to Eriugena was completed almost fifty years ago and, having been in considerable demand but out of print for many years, is here made available once more without substantial alteration. The original book described the metaphysical and theological system of later (post-Plotinian) Neoplatonism in one of its most important pagan forms and in one of its most significant Christian forms, striving thereby to depict the conceptual analogies and doctrinal intersections between these two often competing sets of ideas.

The reprint of this book includes a new introduction which is intended to be a substantial document in its own right. This provides a meta-critical analysis of the historical and conceptual method pursued in the original work, especially by drawing the reader's attention to ideas, topics, and themes given less emphasis in the earlier text. The new introduction also inserts, at critical points in the discussion, bibliographical notices of the present author's numerous more recent publications dealing with the same or similar issues.