Author Description

This edited and refereed volume consists of an introduction by the editor and twelve commissioned chapters by leading contemporary professional philosophers who share their passion for unjustly neglected classics from the distant past and recent past. These neglected classics are to be found in many philosophical traditions on several continents and in different ages. Collectively, these chapters invite the beginning and advanced student of philosophy to explore some overlooked paths and to renew philosophy in a more inclusive, cosmopolitan manner. They also offer an oblique window on the nature and state of contemporary professional philosophy, and signal how it may be reformed.