Byzantine Incursions on the Borders of Philosophy Contesting the Bou

This book represents a series of incursions from the region of Byzantine thought into territory long claimed by Western philosophy and theology. But at the same time, it is a project of attempting, beginning with thoughts inevitably rooted in the West, to

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Bruce V. Foltz

Byzantine Incursions on the Borders of Philosophy Contesting the Boundaries of Nature, Art, and Religion

Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture Volume 26 Series Founder H. Tristram Engelhardt†, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Editor Mark J. Cherry, Department of Philosophy, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas Assistant Editor James Stacey Taylor, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA Editorial Board David Bradshaw, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Peter Jaworski, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Terry Pinkard, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. C. Griffin Trotter, Center for Health Care Ethics & Emergency Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Bruce V. Foltz

Byzantine Incursions on the Borders of Philosophy Contesting the Boundaries of Nature, Art, and Religion

Bruce V. Foltz Department of Philosophy Eckerd College Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

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Preface to Byzantine Incursions by Bruce Foltz

It is remarkable how little attention philosophers have paid to Byzantium. To a greater extent than the Latin-speaking West, where a tiny flame of learning was kept