Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy
Author: Andrew LaZella
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474450822

A team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of themes and lines of thought that cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries, opening up new ways to conceptualise the history of this period within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.

The Judgment of Sense

The Judgment of Sense
Author: David Summers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1990-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521386319

With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notions invoked in this new theory and criticism. From a thorough examination of the sources, he shows how the medieval language of mental discourse derived from an understanding of classical thought.

Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology

Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology
Author: Scott M. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 042951493X

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call ‘disability.’ The chapters also compare what these medieval authors say with modern and contemporary philosophers and theologians of disability. This dual approach enriches our understanding of the history of disability in medieval Christian philosophy and theology and opens up new avenues of research for contemporary scholars working on disability. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One addresses theoretical frameworks regarding disability, particularly on questions about the definition(s) of ‘disability’ and how disability relates to well-being. The chapters are then divided into two further parts in order to reflect ways that medieval philosophers and theologians theorized about disability. Part Two is on disability in this life, and Part Three is on disability in the afterlife. Taken as a whole, these chapters support two general observations. First, these philosophical theologians sometimes resist Greco-Roman ableist views by means of theological and philosophical anti-ableist arguments and counterexamples. Here we find some surprising disability-positive perspectives that are built into different accounts of a happy human life. We also find equal dignity of all human beings no matter ability or disability. Second, some of the seeds for modern and contemporary ableist views were developed in medieval Christian philosophy and theology, especially with regard to personhood and rationality, an intellectualist interpretation of the imago Dei, and the identification of human dignity with the use of reason. This volume surveys disability across a wide range of medieval Christian writers from the time of Augustine up to Francisco Suarez. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in medieval philosophy and theology, or disability studies.

Cultural Perspectives on Shame

Cultural Perspectives on Shame
Author: Cecilea Mun
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000890848

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. More specifically, each chapter focuses on the question of how culture can differentially affect experiences of shame for members of that culture. As a collection, this volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on shame, highlighting the various similarities and differences of experiences of shame across cultures. In Part 1, each contributor focuses primarily on how shame is theorized in a non-English-speaking culture, and address how the science of shame ought to be pursued, how it ought to identify its object of study, what methods are appropriate for a rigorous science of shame, and how a method of study can determine or influence a theory of shame. In Part 2, each contributor is primarily concerned with a cultural practice of shame, and addresses how shame is related to a normative understanding of our self as a person and an individual member of a community, how culture and politics affect the value and import of shame, and what the relationship between culture and politics is in the construction of shamed identities. Cultural Perspectives on Shame will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in cross-cultural philosophy, philosophy of emotion, moral psychology, and the social sciences.

Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West

Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West
Author: Makdisi George Makdisi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Cristianismo
ISBN: 1474470653

Challenging beliefs about intellectual culture, Makdisi reaffirms the links between Western and Arabic thought and shows that although scholasticism and humanism have long been considered to be exclusive to the Western world, they have their roots in the medieval Islamic world.

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World

Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Author: Kristina Richardson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 074864508X

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
Author: S. Biernoff
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2002-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230508359

This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.

Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Author: Alison Stone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-06-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748647015

This volume begins with the rise of German Idealism and Romanticism, traces the developments of naturalism, positivism, and materialism and of later-century attempts to combine idealist and naturalist modes of thought. Written by a team of leading international scholars this crucial period of philosophy is examined from the novel perspective of themes and lines of thought which cut across authors, disciplines, and national boundaries. This fresh approach will open up new ways for specialists and students to conceptualise the history of 19th-century thought within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.

Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition

Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition
Author: Samuel England
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474425259

The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India

The Oxford History of Medieval Europe

The Oxford History of Medieval Europe
Author: George Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780192801333

Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now available in a compact, more convenient format, it offers the same text and many of the illustrations which first appeared in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, the book explores a period of profound diversity and change, focusing on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War. The Oxford History of the Medieval World also examines such intriguing cultural subjects as the chivalric code of knights, popular festivals, and the proliferation of new art forms, and the catastrophic social effect of the Black Death.