
Glenn W. Most
External Scientific Member (Jun 2020-May 2027)
Prof. Dr. Emeritus
Glenn W. Most retired in November 2020 as Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and remains a regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Classics, on ancient philosophy, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on such other ones as modern philosophy and literature. Most recently he has published the second, revised edition of Hesiod in two volumes in the Loeb series, a co-edited comprehensive Loeb edition of the early Greek philosophers in nine volumes, a co-edited volume on scholarly methods in a variety of canonical written traditions, a co-edited volume of essays on a sentence of Kafka, and a collection of his essays in Italian on ancient and modern psychology. He is currently working in various projects involving both ancient Greek philology and the comparison of philological practices in different periods and cultures throughout the world.
Projects
Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs
Selected Publications
Wietecha, Tracy (2020). “Review of: Soto-Bruna, María Jesús (Ed.): Causality and Resemblance: Medieval Approaches to the Explanation of Nature. Hildesheim: Olms 2018.” Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 27 (2): 222–226. https://doi.org/10.21071/refime.v27i2.13137.
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Most, Glenn W. (2020). “Loebing: A Personal Account.” In The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017, ed. J. Henderson and R. Thomas, XVIII–XXVI. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Most, Glenn W. (2020). Huaiyizhe Duoma 怀疑者多马 [Doubting Thomas], Translator Zhao Hua 赵画. Wenhua shenghuo yicong 文化生活译丛. Beijing: Shenghuo dushu xinzhi sanlian shudian.
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Past Events
Reading Group
Signification in Artificial Languages in Early Modern European Thought
MOREReading Group
Terms, Notions, and Imagery in Chinese Theories of Signification
MOREReading Group
Signification in Sanskrit and in the Indian Colonial Context
MOREReading Group
Experiences and Signification in Medieval Latin Natural Philosophy
MOREReading Group
Name, Thing Named, and Signification in Classic Islamic Theology
MOREReading Group
Signification in Ancient Greek Philosophy
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POSTPONED: History of Science and History of Philologies
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