Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature and development of the idea of transformation, from the classical period to the twentieth century. Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, non-western philosophy and aesthetics.

Part 1: Philosophy as Transformative: Ancient China, Greece, India, and Rome Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits 1. Socratic Dialogue and the Transformation of Character Frisbee C.C. Sheffield 2. Aristotle on Personal and Epistemic Transformation Marta Jimenez and Andrew Culbreth 3. Philosophy and Life: Nagel and Zhuangzi on Absurdity and Equanimity Karyn Lai 4. On Transformative Insight as the Quieting of Views in Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Nāgārjuna as Master of Irony Antoine Panaïoti 5. The Dangers of Sects: Lucian, Galen, and Sextus Empiricus Justin Vlasits 6. Transformation as Self-Cultivation in Plotinian Neoplatonism Michael Griffin Part 2: Transformation Between the Human and the Divine: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits 7. Human Transformation at the Limits of Animality and Divinity in Avicenna’s Epistle on Love Bligh Somma 8. Transformation via Mystical Experience in the 13th Century: Hadewijch, Marguerite d’Oingt, and Mechthild of Hackeborn Christina van Dyke 9. Via Transformativa: Reading Descartes’ Meditations as a Mystical Text Amber L. Griffioen and Kristopher G. Phillips 10. Spinozan (Trans)Formations Julie Klein 11. Transformation and Essence (K’oje’ik) in the K’iche’ Maya Popol Vuhi Alexus McLeod Part 3: Transformation After the Copernican Revolution: Post-Kantian Philosophy Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits 12. Is Radicalization becoming a Fanatic? A Historical Inquiry Joshua di Paolo 13. Post-Kantian Idealism and Self-Transformation G. Anthony Bruno 14. Marx on Ideology and Historical Transformation Jaime Edwards 15. Responsibility and Transformation in Either/Or and Being and Time Sacha Golob 16. World History in a Dictionary: Franz Rosenzweig on Teshuva, Metanoia, and Umkehr Benjamin Pollock 17. Merleau-Ponty, the Improvisatory Body, and Humans as Revolutionary Animals Kym Maclaren Part 4: Treatises, Pregnancies, Psychedelics, and Epiphanies: Twentieth-Century Philosophy Introduction G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits 18. Wittgenstein’s Transitions: ‘A Philosophical Problem Has the Form: I Don’t Know My Way About’ Hans Sluga 19. Dewey on the Ever-Transformative Character of Experience Irina Schumski 20. Transformative Experience in Psychedelic Therapy Adam Bradley 21. Epiphanies: A Brief and Partial History, with Particular Reference to James Joyce Sophie-Grace Chappell 22. Pregnancy: Transformations in Philosophy and Legal Practice Suki Finn, Jill Marshall, Anna Pathe-Smith, and Victoria Adkins. Index