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Transformation and the History of Philosophy — G. Anthony Bruno

Transformation and the History of Philosophy

G. Anthony Bruno

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Life of the Mind — Hannah Arendt

The Life of the Mind

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader — Daniel McKaughan

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader

Daniel McKaughan

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought From Antiquity to the Anthropocene — David LaRocca

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought From Antiquity to the Anthropocene

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science — Liba Taub

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

شفاء : سماع الطبيعي — Avicenna

شفاء : سماع الطبيعي

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Cambridge Companion to Boethius — John Marenbon

The Cambridge Companion to Boethius

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy — David Sedley

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Byzantium A Very Short Introduction — Peter Sarris

Byzantium A Very Short Introduction

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Queens of a Fallen World The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions — Kate Cooper

Queens of a Fallen World The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation — Debra Hawhee

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Planet Narnia The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis — Michael Ward

Planet Narnia The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Averroes on Plato’s “Republic” — Averroës

Averroes on Plato’s “Republic” — Averroës

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Dream of Reason A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance — Anthony Gottlieb

The Dream of Reason A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Anthony Gottlieb

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Forbidden Fruit From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise — Peter Abelard

Forbidden Fruit From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Syrisch-Arabische Biographieen Des Aristotles. Syrische Commentare Zur Eisagoge Des Porphyrios — Anton Baumstark

Syrisch-Arabische Biographieen Des Aristotles. Syrische Commentare Zur Eisagoge Des Porphyrios

Anton Baumstark

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato — Ilsetraut Hadot

Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato

Ilsetraut Hadot

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Political Writings Political Regime and Summary of Plato’s Laws — Alfarabi

The Political Writings Political Regime and Summary of Plato’s Laws

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Modalities in Medieval Philosophy — Simo Knuuttila

Modalities in Medieval Philosophy

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Theophany The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite — Eric D. Perl

Theophany The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Plotinus and Augustine on the Mid-Rank of Soul Navigating Two Worlds — Joseph Torchia, OP

Plotinus and Augustine on the Mid-Rank of Soul Navigating Two Worlds

Joseph Torchia, OP

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Disputed Questions on Virtue — Saint Thomas (Aquinas)

Disputed Questions on Virtue

Saint Thomas (Aquinas)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

The Dream of Reason A History of Western Philosophy — Anthony Gottlieb

The Dream of Reason A History of Western Philosophy

Anthony Gottlieb

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

Egypt, Greece, and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean — Charles Freeman

Egypt, Greece, and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

Charles Freeman

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Medieval

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds. Connected by History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, Medieval. Authors featured include G. Anthony Bruno, Hannah Arendt, Daniel McKaughan, David LaRocca, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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