The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during the Second Empire, the family that grew out of the liaisons between Adelaide Fouque and her husband Rougons, and the smuggler Macquart. – Summary by Mark Leder
This monograph focusses predictably on the theories and teachings of Plotinus but precedes this with a review of foregoing schools of philosophy, with discussions of the thought and times of contemporary and subsequent thinkers who were influenced by Neoplatonism. (Summary by Peter Tucker)