The Self in Premodern Thought

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy and Charles H. Gregory '64 Chair in Arts and Sciences at Texas A & M University. His many books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (2000), Understanding 'I': Language and Thought (2017), and The Bodily Self (2018). He has a longstanding interest in the history of philosophy, particularly classical, and his most recent book is Aristotle's De Anima: A Guide (2025). Catherine Conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation. Her interest in interiority and the self led to a Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions (2016), while her most recent book is Augustine the African (2025).

• The self in premodern thought: from antiquity to the renaissance in Europe José Luis Bermúdez and Catherine Conybeare (eds.); 1. Introduction José Luis Bermúdez and Catherine Conybeare; 2. Framing (some) self in the Platonic dialogues M. M. McCabe; 3. Aristotle's multiple selves José Luis Bermúdez; 4. Self-harm and the death drive Simon Goldhill; 5. Augustine and the origins of the self Catherine Conybeare; 6. The Sinful self: formation and transformation Abigail Firey; 7. Turning inward and outward: two medieval approaches to the self Dominik Perler; 8. The Hesychast self: interiority and embodied perfection in the anthropology of Gregory Palamas Alexis Torrance; 9. Renaissance individualism revisited: Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the emergence of the humanist relational self Gur Zak; 10. Free will a fortress: the self in Spanish renaissance drama Hilaire Kallendorf; 11. Beyond consciousness: Locke's sources for the self Patrick J. Connolly; 12. A Decaying Carcass? Mary Astell on the body Colin Chamberlain.