Scrinium Classical Antiquity

BENDER, F., George Berkeley. Wereldvenster, Baarn,1965. 120p. Original green cloth with dust wrps.Dust wrps bit worn and to inside a bit stained. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

BENN, A.W., History of Ancient Philosophy. Watts&Co, London, 1936. 138p. ills. Cloth. Series: Thinker's Library, 58. Pencil markings and underlinings on pp.1-15. € 8.50 (Antiquarian)

BERG, J.H. van den, Metabletica of Leer der veranderingen. Beginselen van een historische psychologie. Callenbach, Nijkerk, 1962. 11th ed. 256p. ills.(B&W and one full colour ill.). Original green cloth with dust wrps. With signature on free endpaper. Dust wrps slightly worn. Nice copy. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

BERGSON, H., Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1948. 340p. Sewn. Pages yellowed. Signature on half title. € 10.00 (Antiquarian)

BERK, L., Epicharmus. (With a Summary in English). Wolters, Groningen, 1964. VII,163p. Theses. Sewn. With letter from W.J. Verdenius to J.(Johannes) van Leeuwen loosely inserted. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. (Rare). 'This dissertation is a methodical examination of Epicharmus' life and the surviving fragments. Since many of these are preserved because they happen to have illustrated for a late grammarian some feature of Sicilian diet or dialect, it is difficult to be sure that they give a fair reflection of their author, and because of their brevity many are impossible to interpret. Dr. Berk is well aware of these problems, and so is obliged to express himself with great caution throughout the book. In general the argument is clear and sensible (...). The chapter on the philosophical fragments is likely to be useful to any future editor; it suggests that in the past the line has not always been correctly drawn between the spurious and the genuine; the same applies to the proverbs and gnomic utterances. The most important points in each chapter are indicated in the English summary.' (N.G. WILSON in The Classical Review (New Series), 1968, p. 234). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

BERTELS, C.P., and E. PETERSMA, (eds.), Filosofen van de 20e eeuw. Van Gorcum / Intermediair, Assen / Amsterdam, 1972. 272p. ills.(B/W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. € 7.00 (Antiquarian)

BEUCHOT, M., Tópicos de filosofía y lenguaje. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 1991. 247p. Paperback. (Rare). Series: Cuadernos del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, 17. From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

BEVAN, E., Stoics and Sceptics. Four Lectures delivered in Oxford during Hilary Term 1913 for the Common University Fund. Arno Press, NewYork, 1979. Photomechnical reprint ed.1913. 152p. Imitation leather bound. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

BEYEN, H.G., C.C. van ESSEN, e.a., Studia Varia Carolo Guilelmo Vollgraff. A discipulis oblata. A.o.: C.C. van ESSEN: Homère genesis pantessin (pp.3-22); B.A. van GRONINGEN: Quelques considerations sur l'aoriste gnomique (pp.49-62); J.C. KAMERBEEK: Sophocle et Héraclite (pp.84-99); W.J. VERDENIUS: Empedocles' doctrine of sight (pp.155-165). North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1948. 194p. Cloth. Cover and spine gilt stamped. € 26.50 (Antiquarian)

BIANCHI, E. B., Antiquities Beyond Humanism. Oxford University Press, 2021. First paperback ed. IX,310p. Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. 'In Antiquities Beyond Humanism, scholars working in and among philosophy, classics, political theory, and comparative literature explore a series of topics regarding the interactions between ancient thought and the turn enacted through contemporary posthumanism and new materialism to consider this neglected aspect of ancient thinking. To be sure, the book is of significant interest to those who study subjects in continental philosophy like psychoanalysis, feminist theory, queer theory, and object-oriented ontology. But this excellent volume also should be read by those with broader interest in antiquity, as it demonstrates ways in which the ancient texts continue to be of the greatest value to promising new movements in contemporary thinking. (...) In the Introduction, the editors begin by reviewing the putative influence of antiquity on Renaissance humanism, before turning to consider the historical interpretations undergirding the recent posthumanistic reception of antiquity, including the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German neo-humanists, E. R. Dodd’s The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) and its reception among the postwar French classicists influenced by structuralism, the feminist turn among classicists in the 1970s and 1980s, the critical theories of Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari, and the complicated role of the ancients in recent critical feminist thinking represented by figures like Elizabeth Grosz, Judith Butler, and Luce Irigaray. Part 1 is titled ‘Posthuman Antiquities?’ and includes four chapters through which this very possibility is interrogated.(...) Part 2 includes four chapters dealing with ‘Alternate Zoologies,’ or the fluidity among categories of living beings and natural forces. (...) Part 3, ‘Anthro-Excentric,’ comprises five papers on non-human forces and their emergent and interactive senses. (...) Ultimately, the book offers occasion to rethink human positioning in light of the horrific errors regarding self-conception in our own time by returning to the ancient view of the interconnected cosmos in which the human is merely a part, and one materially dependent on the whole.' (COLIN C. SMITH in BMCR 2020.02.29). € 27.50 (Antiquarian)