Format:
VIII, 405 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9789400752399
Series Statement:
International archives of the history of ideas 211
Content:
While the transmission of Greek philosophy and science via the Muslim world to western Europe in the Middle Ages has been closely scrutinized, the fate of the Arabic philosophical and scientific legacy in later centuries has received less attention, a fault this volume aims to correct. The authors in this collection discuss in particular the radical ideas associated with Averroism that are attributed to the Aristotle commentator Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) and challenge key doctrines of the Abrahamic religions. This volume examines what happened to Averroes’s philosophy during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Did early modern thinkers really no longer pay any attention to the Commentator? Were there undercurrents of Averroism after the sixteenth century? How did Western authors in this period contextualise Averroes and Arabic philosophy within their own cultural heritage? How different was the Averroes they created as a philosopher in a European tradition from Ibn Rushd, the theologian, jurist and philosopher of the Islamic tradition?
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [353] - 380
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Introduction / Guido GiglioniAverroes against Avicenna on human spontaneous generation : the starting-point of a lasting debate / Amos Bertolacci -- Revisiting the 1552-1550 and 1562 Aristotle-Averroes edition / Charles Burnett -- Humanism and the assessment of Averroes in the Renaissance / Craig Martin -- Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian mind, and the monster of Averroes / Michael J.B. Allen -- The transmutations of a young Averroist : Agostino Nifo's commentary on the Destructio Destructionem of Averroes and the nature of celestial influences / Nicholas Holland -- Intellectual beatitude in the Averroist tradition : the case of Agostino Nifo / Leen Spruit -- Averroistic themes in Girolamo Cardano's De immortalitate animorum / José Manuel García Valverde -- Phantasms of reason and shadows of matter : Averroes's notion of the imagination and its Renaissance interpreters / Guido Giglioni -- The Cambridge Platonists and Averroes / Sarah Hutton -- Reconsidering the case of Elijah Delmedigo's Averroism and its impact on Spinoza / Carlos Fraenkel -- Averroes and Arabic philosophy in the modern Historia philosophica : seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Gregorio Piaia -- Immanuel Kant, universal understanding, and the meaning of Averroism in the German Enlightenment / Marco Sgarbi -- Ernest Renan and Averroism : the story of a misinterpretation / John Marenbon -- Leo Strauss and the alethiometer / James E. Montgomery -- Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? : the problem, the debate, and its philosophical implications / Anna Akasoy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789400752405
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Akasoy, Anna, 1977 - Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe Dordrecht : Springer, 2013 ISBN 9789400752405
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Averroes 1126-1198
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Rezeption
;
Europa
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Averroes 1126-1198
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Rezeption
;
Europa
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Averroismus
;
Europa
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5
Author information:
Akasoy, Anna 1977-
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