Interpreting Averroes

Critical Essays

Peter Adamson, Matteo Di Giovanni (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-53540-4 (ISBN)

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Brings together world-leading scholars on Averroes, most famous as a commentator on Aristotle but also a major figure in Islamic law. Engages with all aspects of his philosophy from multiple perspectives and treats him in the context of twelfth-century Islamic Spain as well as of Christian and Jewish philosophical traditions.

This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations of Islamic theology. It also sheds light on the interconnections between aspects of his work that are usually studied separately, such as his treatises on logic and his legal writings. Advanced students and scholars will find authoritative and insightful treatments of Averroes' philosophy, tackled from multiple perspectives and written in a clear and accessible way that will appeal to those encountering his work for the first time as well as to anyone looking for new critical approaches to Averroes and his thinking.

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has published numerous volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2004) and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge, 2013). Matteo Di Giovanni is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, Rhode Island. Among his publications are various studies on Andalusian philosophy and the Syro-Arabic tradition of Greek Aristotelianism, and a monograph on Averroes entitled Averroè (2017).

Introduction Peter Adamson and Matteo Di Giovanni; 1. Averroes philosopher of Islam Matteo Di Giovanni; 2. Dogmatics, theology, and philosophy in Averroes Mokdad Arfa-Mensia; 3. Averroes on juridical reasoning Ziad Bou Akl; 4. Averroes' corrective philosophy of law Feriel Bouhafa; 5. Averroes' logic Paul Thom; 6. Constructing Averroes' epistemology Deborah L. Black; 7. Averroes on knowing essences David Wirmer; 8. Averroes and the 'internal senses' Rotraud Hansberger; 9. Averroes on medicine Joël Chandelier; 10. Averroes' natural philosophy as science of nature Cristina Cerami; 11. Averroes on divine causation Peter Adamson; 12. Averroes' goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Frédérique Woerther.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 150 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-107-53540-9 / 1107535409
ISBN-13	978-1-107-53540-4 / 9781107535404
Zustand	Neuware