Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Two: Dreaming

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist, Juhana Toivanen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50608-4 (ISBN)

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Dreaming is the second part of the trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. It investigates some of the most fascinating and enduring discussions on dreams in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic reception of Aristotle’s psychology.

The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This second volume focuses on dreaming and analyses some of the most prominent problems connected to dreams as representations. The contributions in this volume address the core Aristotelian texts and their reception, up to and including contemporary scientific discourse on dreaming.

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia. Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).

Preface

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Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition

Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink

1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams

Pavel Gregoric

2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation

Filip Radovic

3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context

David Bennett

4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming

Rotraud Hansberger

5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist

6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep

Sten Ebbesen

7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming

Filip Radovic

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Philosophia Antiqua ; 162
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	607 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-50608-X / 900450608X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50608-4 / 9789004506084
Zustand	Neuware