Reading Neoplatonism: Non-Discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius Book

Preface: discursive strategies and Neoplatonic texts; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations;

1. Introduction. Representing a tradition: exegesis, symbol and self-reflection;

Part I. Language in the Enneads:
2. Plotinus' critique of discursive thinking;
3. Non-discursive thinking in the Enneads;
4. Introspection in the dialectic of the Enneads;
5. The symbolism of the Enneads;

Part II. Text and Tradition in Neoplatonism:
6. History of an enigma: mathematical symbolism in the Neoplatonic tradition;
7. Transmigrations of a myth: Orphic texts and Platonic contexts;
8. Language and theurgy in Proclus' Platonic Theology;
9. Damascius' ineffable discourse;
10. Conclusion: reading Neoplatonism; References; General index; Index locorum.