Eric Perl
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Yale, 1991
Specialties: Neoplatonism, Plato, Ancient Philosophy
Current Projects: A book, Being as Appearance: Reading Plotinus with Phenomenology; an article, “The Good of the Intellect”; a book chapter, “Pseudo-Dionysius the Areapagite,” for the Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity.
Selected Publications:
Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite [Albany: SUNY Press, 2007].
“’Every Life is a Thought:’ The Analogy of Personhood in Neoplatonism,” Philosophy and Theology 18 (2006): 143-167.
“The Togetherness of Thought and being: A Phenomenological Reading of Plotinus’ Doctrine ‘That the Intelligibles Are Not Outside the Intellect’,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 22 (2006), 1-26.
Contact Information:
University Hall 3622
Phone: 310-228-2969
Email: eperl@lmu.edu