Aristotle on Memory: Second Edition

By Richard Sorabji

Book Overview

Richard Sorabji, a noted philosopher in his own right, here offers a new edition of his 1972 translation of De Memoria here with commentary, summaries, and three essays comparing Aristotle's accounts of memory and recollection. For this edition, Sorabji has also provided a substantial new introduction taking into account scholarly debates over the intervening thirty years, particularly those over the role of mental images in the imagination.

"Sorabji has produced a first-class book on an important topic. All Aristotelians, and anyone with an interest in any aspect of memory, will be in his debt."--Jonathan Barnes, Isis

"Anyone concerned with Aristotle's psychology, theory of mind, or rhetoric, anyone interested in mnemonic systems, and anyone trying to work out for himself a theory of memory, should read Aristotle's treatise On Memory, with the comments by Richard Sorabji."--International Studies in Philosophy

"Sorabji's book is a sample of care, intelligence, and subtlety that the Anglo-Saxon philosophers do not hesitate to invest in such enterprises. . . . The notes seem to leave no detail, no textual difficulty unilluminated."--Revue de M taphysique et de Morale

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226768236
• ISBN13: 9780226768236
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"