Thomas Taylor

This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of Plato and Aristotle. Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a "golden chain of philosophers," a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged again and again, enriched in the School of Alexandria, in Renaissance art, in the works of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats. Kathleen Raine is well known as a poet. GEorge Mills Harper is Professor of English, University of Florida. Bollingen Series LXXXVIII. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

An exceptional and unforgettable tale of magic, courage and the boundless possibilities of the imagination, from the bestselling and award-winning author of MALAMANDER. When Tom follows the trail of a mysterious lantern down a dim alleyway, he discovers a secret. He has stumbled on the place where the Everyday meets Faery - a dangerous magical world full of trolls, ghosts, dragons, and things from the darkest corners of the imagination. Tom is apprenticed to a secret society called the Esotericals, which claims to protect the Everyday from the dark creatures of Faery. But, venturing into Faery for himself, Tom meets a young witch named Persistence and her familiar, a starling named Mortimer, who insist that there’s more to the Esotericals than meets the eye. Then Faery's most horrifying creature begins to hunt Tom down: The Smothering Dark. She wants something, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it – even if that means breaking down the barrier between Faery and the Everyday once and for all . . . Rich, epic, immersive and exciting, this bewitching story is set to be a modern classic.

This is the first book to critically examine England football fans’ attitudes towards Muslims and Islam through the lens of a sports mega-event, drawing on fan experiences at the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup, the first staged in an Islamic society. Drawing on pre-event interviews, audio-visual diaries, field observations, and post-event reflections with England fans, the book examines whether short-term sporting events can produce transformational shifts in fans’ attitudes towards Muslims and Islam, or whether they reinforce existing prejudices despite unprecedented opportunities for intergroup contact. To do so, it develops a novel theoretical framework by integrating Gordon Allport’s contact theory with Edward Said’s Orientalism, offering a unique lens for understanding intergroup encounters in a sporting context. Arriving at a critical juncture between the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, as Arabian Peninsula states will likely assume a greater role in global sport, the book makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of football fandom, anti-Muslim prejudice, and the potential for sport to address wider social and cultural issues. This book is fascinating reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the sociology of sport, social psychology, postcolonial studies, and tourism and events, and will appeal to anybody with a broader interest in football fandom, intergroup relations, Orientalism, or the cultural politics of sports mega-events.