The Dionysian Traditions. 24th Annual Colloquium of the S.I.E.P.M.

This is a tremendous volume, one whose technical demands are made worthwhile by the sheer range and depth of scholarship on display from which one can learn much. The conference languages appear to have been German and English, which does make one wonder about the reason for the scarcity of contributions from the »Romance« linguistic realm. The work has a centre of gravity somewhere around Prague, which gives it a central European aspect. There is also an effort to relate the influence of Dionysius in the Middle Ages to both ancient philosophy behind Dionysius and modern (Hegel, Heidegger). It has to be noted that not all those mentioned as contributors in the Preface (including Chr. Erismann) appear in this book and there is one unmentioned (Lars Reuke) who does!