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This volume deals with the relation between Jacques Derrida's writing and Neoplatonism (ancient, patristic, medieval). Starting from the undeniable fact of Derrida's continuous engagement with this tradition, the present study deals not only with the actual reading of the Neoplatonists by Derrida ("Derrida after Neoplatonism") but also with a hypothetical reading of Derrida by Neoplatonism ("Neoplatonism after Derrida"). Thus, the intended audience is both philologists and philosophers interested in the encounter of ancient and contemporary thought. Separate chapters are devoted to a general study of Neoplatonism and Deconstruction, commentaries on three Derridean texts in which their 'Neoplatonic' implications are developed, and a treatment of the problem of non-discursive thought in which all Neoplatonic and Derridean perspectives are transcended

Stephen Gersh's Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida continues his earlier project (Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006)) of reading the philosophy of late antiquity in a critical encounter with Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Platonism

Introduction / Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran -- Non-subjective idealism in Plato (Sophist 248e-249d) / Vasilis Politis -- The platonic forms as Gesetze : could Paul Natorp have been right? / John Dillon -- Platonism and its interpretation : the three paradigms and their place in the history of hermeneutics / Vittorio Hsle -- The Roman stoics on divine thinking and human knowledge / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- The object of perception in Plotinus / Andrew Smith -- Saint Augustine and the indwelling of the ideas in God / Jean Pipin -- Spiritualis incrassatio Eriugena's intellectualist immaterialism : is it an idealism? / Dermot Moran -- Eriugena's fourfold contemplation : idealism and arithmetic / Stephen Gersh -- Eriugena's idealist interpretation of paradise / Agnieszka Kijewska -- Immanence and transcendence : intellect and forms in al-kind and the liber de causis / Peter Adamson -- The scientific background of George Berkeley's idealism / Bertil Belfrage -- The chain and the animal : idealism in Berkeley's siris / Timo Airaksinen -- Idealism from Kant to Berkeley / Karl Ameriks -- Idealism and realism in classical German philosophy / Walter Jaeschke