John Sellars is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. He is the author of The Art of the Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (2009), and Stoicism (Routledge, 2006).

Introduction John Sellars

Part 1: Antiquity and the Middle Ages

1. Stoicism in Rome Gretchen Reydams-Schils

2. Stoicism in Early Christianity Troels Engberg-Pedersen

3. Plotinus and the Platonic Response to Stoicism Lloyd Gerson

4. Augustine's Debt to Stoicism in the Confessions Sarah Byers

5. Boethius and Stoicism Matthew Walz

6. Stoic Themes in Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury Kevin Guilfoy

7. Stoic Influences in the Later Middle Ages Mary Beth Ingham

Part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

8. The Recovery of Stoicism in the Renaissance Ada Palmer

9. Stoicism in the Philosophy of the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye

10. Erasmus, Calvin, and the Faces of Stoicism in Renaissance and Reformation Thought Barbara Pitkin

11. Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism Jacqueline Lagrée

12. Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature Andrew Shifflett

Part 3: Early Modern Europe

13. Medicine of the Mind in Early Modern Philosophy Guido Giglioni

14. Stoic Themes in Early Modern French Thought Michael Moriarty

15. Spinoza and Stoicism Jon Miller

16. Leibniz and the Stoics: Fate, Freedom, and Providence David Forman

17. The Epicurean Stoicism of the French Enlightenment Edward Andrew

18. Stoicism and the Scottish Enlightenment Christian Maurer

19. Kant and Stoic Ethics José Torralba and Daniel Doyle

Part 4: The Modern World

20. Stoicism in Nineteenth Century German Philosophy Michael Ure

21. Stoicism and Romantic Literature Simon Swift

22. Stoicism in Victorian Culture Heather Ellis

23. Stoicism in America Kenneth Sacks

24. Stoic Themes in Contemporary Anglo-American Ethics Christopher Gill

25. Stoicism and Twentieth Century French Philosophy Thomas Bénatouïl

26. The Stoic Influence on Modern Psychotherapy Donald Robertson.

Index

The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is the first volume of its kind, gathering leading philosophers to provide an outstanding guide and reference source to the nature and extent of contemporary Stoicism.