Ever-Moving Repose

Sotiris Mitralexis is Seeger Fellow at Princeton University, Assistant Professor of philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester. His latest title, Polis, Ontology, Ecclesial Event (2018), is published by James Clarke & Co.

In this remarkable book, Dr. Mitralexis seeks more than an exposition of a central notion in St. Maximus the Confessor's metaphysical vision, but rather a genuine fusion of the horizons, in a Gadamerian sense, so that his understanding of Maximus is informed by the development of a relational ontology by the likes of Zizioulas and Yannaras, whose own thought has been inspired by their reading of Maximus. The result is a bold and original contribution to ontology and metaphysics.

• Foreword - Ecumenical Patriarch BartholomewAcknowledgementsAbbreviations Introduction PART ONE: Introducing Maximus the Confessor - and Our Contemporary Perspective1. Maximus the Confessor 2. Hermeneutic Tools in Approaching Maximus: Christos Yannaras' Ontology 3. Ontological, Epistemological, Anthropological Themes in Maximus 4. Maximus' 'Logical' Ontology:PART TWO: Maximus the Confessor's Understanding of Motion and Temporality5. Motion and Time in Aristotle's Physics as a Precursor to Maximus' Definition of Time 6. Maximus' Philosophy of Motion 7. Introducing Maximus' Conception of Time 8. The Fundamentals of Temporality, Spatiality, and Motion: Sections 35-40 from the Tenth 'Difficulty'9. Inverted Temporality: The Aeon 10. Ever-Moving Repose Concluding Remarks:Reconstructing Maximus the Confessor's Theory of Time BibliographyIndex