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Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context / Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World

Nadja Germann, Mostafa Najafi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 343 Seiten

2020
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-055217-1 (ISBN)

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What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers. In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research. This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.

Nadja Germann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Nadja Germann, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context ; Volume 2
Zusatzinfo	13 b/w ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Islam • Philosophy of Language • Pragmatics • Pragmatik • Semantics • Semantik • Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	3-11-055217-5 / 3110552175
ISBN-13	978-3-11-055217-1 / 9783110552171
Zustand	Neuware