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Two New Books

13/5/2025

 
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Two new books coming out this Summer. The first is an edited collection, The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. The second is a revised and updated edition of my 2006 book Stoicism. The publication dates of both have been sliding around a bit, but hopefully both will out in the next month or so. 

New bits and pieces

28/4/2025

 
Some new bits and pieces just out: 
  • A chapter on the influence of Stoicism in early modern philosophy, 'The Early Modern Legacy of the Stoics', now published in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695170.013.28 
  • A review article discussing two translations of works by the Polish historian of philosophy Juliusz Domanski, advance online with the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2025.2474540 
  • A short blog post on how Epictetus might inadvertently contribute to some common misunderstandings of Stoicism, https://newstoicism.org/2025/04/28/misunderstanding-stoicism-problems-with-epictetus/ 

Upcoming Stoic Events in London

2/4/2025

 
Some upcoming events: 

1. Seneca and Stoicism workshop, organized with my colleague at Royal Holloway, Liz Gloyn, Wednesday 30 April 2025, London. Free and open to all. Further details at
 https://sites.google.com/view/csas-rhul/workshops 

2. Aurelius Foundation public event, Saturday 31 May 2025, London. Further details and tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-philosophy-stoicism-with-the-aurelius-foundation-tickets-1113689197369 

3. Stoicism in Practice conference, Friday 20 June 2025, London. Free and open to all. This is the second annual conference of our 'Centre for the Study and Application of Stoicism'. First announcement at https://sites.google.com/view/csas-rhul/conference

Seneca Workshop

25/3/2025

 
Next month, I and my colleague Liz Gloyn are running a workshop on Seneca and Stoicism, taking place in Bloomsbury, in central London, on Wednesday the 30 April. This will be the fourth workshop that Liz and I have organized since 2019. Full details of the event can be found at https://philevents.org/event/show/130182 

The workshop is free and open to all, and there's no need to register. 

New Books

9/2/2025

 
I’ve been working on three book projects in the closing months of 2024. 

The first is The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. This book was finished and submitted last year but this autumn I’ve been checking proofs and compiling an index. All this is now done and it is scheduled to be published in March 2025. There is further information at the CUP website. 

The second is a new revised edition of my book Stoicism, which was first published in 2006. I have gone through the whole text and made a variety of minor updates and a few additions. The work for this is now in production and it due to be published by Routledge in June 2025. 

The third is a new translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Robin Waterfield. I have written an Introduction, some notes, and a guide to further reading to accompany Robin’s translation. We are submitting the final manuscript to Basic Books shortly. 

With these now done, I have three new book projects to focus on. Two of these are trade books on Stoicism, one likely to come out at the end of 2025 and the other in the Autumn of 2026. The third is a larger project I have been working on for a few years, an academic monograph on Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Renaissance, contracted with Oxford University Press. A fourth book for 2025 is an edited volume on Musonius Rufus which after a number of years is close to completion. 

The Stoic Tradition

19/5/2024

 
For anyone interested in the influence and reception of Stoic ideas, the follow chapters written for different venues offer a more-or-less continuous overview: 

  1. Stoicism in Rome, covering 155 BC - 200 AD, written for The Oxford Handbook of Stoicism (forthcoming): https://www.academia.edu/113783936/Stoicism_in_Rome 
  2. Stoicism (mainly ethics) in the Middle Ages, covering roughly 200-1350, a chapter in my co-authored Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic Ethics (2022): https://www.academia.edu/105073717/The_Reception_of_Stoic_Ethics_in_the_Middle_Ages
  3. Stoicism in the Renaissance, 1350-1600, published in the Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (2022): https://www.academia.edu/25590448/Stoicism_in_the_Renaissance
  4. Stoicism in Early Modern Philosophy, 1600-1800, written for The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (forthcoming): https://www.academia.edu/37646446/The_Early_Modern_Legacy_of_the_Stoics

For the influence of Stoicism after 1800, there are multiple chapters by others in my Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition (2016), details at https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Stoic-Tradition/Sellars/p/book/9780415660754

Stoicism in Practice

6/5/2024

 
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I'm currently organizing a conference that will take place in London in June with the title 'Stoicism in Practice'. This will be an academic conference bringing people together from a number of disciplines to discuss the application of Stoicism in a variety of contexts. The main focus will be on psychological research but there will also be experts in ancient philosophy and discussion of Stoicism in the context of business and leadership. Full details of the event can be found at tinyurl.com/csasrhul

Aristotle

28/2/2024

 
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This month sees the publication of the paperback edition on Aristotle, along with translations into Italian and Spanish. To coincide with these three, I've done three interviews, one with a website called The Collector (https://www.thecollector.com/john-sellars-aristotle-interview/), one for the Italian newspaper La Lettura, and one for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo (https://www.elmundo.es/papel/el-mundo-que-viene/2024/03/15/65e9e886fdddff353f8b459a.html).

Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius

10/11/2023

 
I'm currently in the final stages of editing The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. The whole manuscript was submitted to the Press last year and has been through peer review. All the contributors have revised their chapters in the light of comments and I have now read through the whole manuscript. The final task is to type up those final corrections and then it will be ready to submit. 

Here's the table of contents: 

  1. Marcus Aurelius: The Man and the Meditations
    Caillan Davenport 
  2. The Form and Function of the Meditations as Ethical Self-Cultivation  
    Francesca Alesse 
  3. Marcus Aurelius and the Earlier Stoic Tradition 
    Benjamin Harriman 
  4. Nature, Providence, and Fate 
    Gretchen Reydams-Schils 
  5. Body, Mind, Soul, and Self 
    Lothar Willms 
  6. Value Judgements and Emotions 
    Jean-Baptiste Gourinat 
  7. Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Marcus Aurelius 
    Brad Inwood 
  8. Virtue and Happiness 
    Christopher Gill 
  9. Human Society and the Cosmic City 
    Jula Wildberger 
  10. The Early Modern Reception of the Meditations
    John Sellars 
  11. Marcus Aurelius among the Psychotherapists 
    Donald Robertson 

Recent Talks

10/11/2023

 
Two recent talks have been recorded and are available online. 

The first was an introduction to Marcus Aurelius, given at an Aurelius Foundation event in London. The recording is at
https://aureliusfoundation.com/events-social/. 

The second was a talk about Peter Paul Rubens and Neostoics in 16th-17th century Antwerp, delivered online for Stoicon, available at
youtu.be/iJmT3oYPu6c?si=5hI1uJcsvy6CR7sm. 
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