![]() The volume’s self-description claims that it is a “collection of newly commissioned essays. Between these two models falls a new and somewhat unprecedented (at least in Aristotle scholarship) genre of collection, what Cambridge University Press is characterizing as a Critical Guide. ![]() The Guide/Companion/Handbook model has its uses, perhaps especially for introductory essays or overviews of topics in which clarity, rather than cutting-edge scholarship, is the mark of excellence. Whereas once upon a time edited collections brought together conference papers or previously-published landmark studies-whose mark of excellence is scholarly rigor-more recently libraries have been inundated by Guides, Companions, and Handbooks. ![]() The nature of the edited scholarly collection has undergone a sea-change. ![]()
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