In a review on the Nietzsche Circle, Jill Marsden discusses Daniel Heller-Roazen’s book, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:
“Moving between classical Greek and Roman works as well as medieval, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin texts Heller-Roazen shows how the ‘master sense of the tradition’ was revisited and reworked. Neo-Platonist readers of Aristotle provided the subsequent Christian and Islamic scholars of the medieval period with a rich and complex inheritance which the early modern European philosophers took up in turn.”