Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy

Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy
Author: Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1448
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 140209728X

This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.

Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters

Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters
Author: Charles H. Manekin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030769623

This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. It presents a translation and revision of part of Moritz Steinschneider’s monumental Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Interpreters). This resource was first published in 1893. It remains to this day the authoritative account of the transmission and development of Arabic and Latin, and, by way of those languages, Greek culture to medieval and renaissance Jews. The editors have updated Steinschneider’s bibliography. They have also judiciously revised some of his scholarly judgments. In addition, the volume provides an exhaustive listing of pertinent Hebrew manuscripts and their whereabouts. The section on logic, including texts hitherto unknown, represents the latest research in the history of medieval logic in Hebrew. This publication is the second in a series of volumes that translates, updates, and, where necessary, revises parts of Steinschneider’s bio-bibliographical classic work on Hebrew manuscripts of philosophical encyclopedias, manuals, and logical writings. Historians of medieval culture and philosophy, and also scholars of the transmission of classical culture to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, will find this volume indispensable.

Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition

Averroes and the Aristotelian Tradition
Author: Jan Aertsen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004452753

Averroes the philosopher was the Commentator of Aristotle. In this, the project of his life coincided with the perception of his contemporary readers and with the esteem governing four centuries of European Aristotelianism. It has been the purpose of the 4th Symposium Averroicum to contribute to a better understanding of this philosophy: both on the basis of Averroes' works and in the light of his sources. The Symposium, held in conjunction with the 6th Editors Conference of the Averrois Opera, brought together eminent scholars and researchers on Averroes and adjacent areas. Their contributions are presented in four sections: - The Project of Averroes - Averroes and the Hellenistic Commentators - Averroes, the Commentator - Averroes and the Latin Tradition A bibliography of editions and contributions to the text is appended (to date 1998).

Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea

Words, Texts, and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea
Author: Gerhard Endress
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789042914896

The remarkable extension in depth and width of Muslim intellectual life can be fathomed and measured only against the background of what went on immediately before, and simultaneously elsewhere, or it will remain, in any real sense, unexplored." This statement by the late Franz Rosenthal is, in a sense, the red thread of the present volume which unites 35 articles by renowned scholars of Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and various allied fields of research in honour of a scholar congenial to Franz Rosenthal and exemplary in his scientific carefulness and integrity: Dr Gerhard Endress, Professor of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Central topics of the contributions include Arabic philosophy and its Greek sources and Latin reception, the history and historiography of Arabic-Islamic science, and Islamic concepts of language, knowledge, science and pedagogy. Other articles deal with qur'anic studies, Arabic lexicography and linguistics, the history of Middle Eastern civilizations, the medieval translation movements from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin as well as with political and eschatological theories of medieval Islam. Rooted in different scientific traditions and methodological approaches the studies collected in this Festschrift form a vivid and stimulating synopsis of more than 1000 years of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean intellectual, social and cultural history.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190246979

This Handbook shows the links between medieval and contemporary philosophy. Topic-based essays on all areas of philosophy explore this relationship and introduce the main themes of medieval philosophy. They are preceded by the fullest chronological survey now available of the different traditions: Latin and Greek, Islamic and Jewish.

Reading Ancient Texts. Volume II: Aristotle and Neoplatonism

Reading Ancient Texts. Volume II: Aristotle and Neoplatonism
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2008-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047432843

What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O’Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Buchheim, J. Cleary, K. Corrigan, D. Evans, G. Gurtler S.J., C. Horn, J.-M. Narbonne, C. Natali, G. O'Daly, F. Schroeder, S. Stern-Gillet, P. Thillet, and C. Viano. Publications by Denis O’Brien: • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) • Pour interpréter Empédocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 • Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9

A Hebrew Encyclopedia of the Thirteenth Century. Natural Philosophy in Judah Ben Solomon Ha-Cohen's Midrash Ha-Ḥokhmah.

A Hebrew Encyclopedia of the Thirteenth Century. Natural Philosophy in Judah Ben Solomon Ha-Cohen's Midrash Ha-Ḥokhmah.
Author: Resianne Fontaine
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2023-03-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004526439

This book presents, for the first time, a critical edition and English translation of the natural philosophy section of the first major thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedia of science and philosophy and assesses Judah ha-Cohen's place in the history of Jewish philosophy.

Allah Transcendent

Allah Transcendent
Author: Ian Richard Netton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136102744

Examines the role of God in medieval Islamic philosophy and theology in a new and exciting way. Renouncing the traditional chronological method of considering Islamic philosophy, Netton uses modern literary modes of criticism derived from structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics.