Description: Stephen Gersh's Being Different: More Neoplatonism after Derrida continues his earlier project (Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms (Brill, 2006)) of reading the philosophy of late antiquity in a critical encounter with Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Platonism.
Review Quotes: "Being Different is an appropriate sequel [to Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms], bringing in new players (Augustine, Damascius, Mallarmé) to revisit many of the problems explored in the first volume, while ultimately steering the inquiry into the tantalizing questions of the "performative utterance" and verbal theurgy. Dylan Burns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.10.36.