A guide to Greek thought : major figures and trends, Jacques Brunschwig, Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Pierre Pellegrin and Catherine Porter : book review

This book is a series of essays, written by a team of renowned scholars, primarily French and English. The essays were extracted from the considerably larger work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, which is a translation of Le Savoir Grec: Dictionnaire Critique. Greek Thought is a reference book with appeal not only to philosophers for its treatment of philosophical subjects, thinkers and schools of thought but also to literary critics for the abstract way in which it goes about this treatment: its purported aim is to investigate the self-reflective aspect of Greek thought without primary attention to philosophical content and historical context. In the introduction, the editors call this collection of articles 'the gaze of the moderns looking upon the Greeks looking upon themselves' (p. xii).