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Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Akasoy, Anna. (Editor), Giglioni, Guido. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des iděs, 211
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy.
History of Philosophy.
Philosophy of Religion.
Political Theory.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction, A. Akasoy and G. Giglioni
  • Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Averroes<U+0019> Criticisms of Avicenna<U+0019>s Philosophy in Latin Philosophy and Historiograph, A.Bertolacci
  • The Giuntine Aristotle-Averroes Edition (1550-1552) Revisited, C. Burnett
  • Super-Commentaries: The Renaissance Resurgence of Commentaries on Averroes, C. Martin
  • Marsilio Ficino, the Platonic Mind and the Monster of Averroes, M. J.B. Allen
  • The <U+0018>Transmutations<U+0019> of a Young Averroist: The Account of Celestial Influences in Agostino Nifo<U+0019>s Commentary on Averroes<U+0019> Destructio destructionum, N. Holland
  • Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition: The Case of Agostino Nifo, L. Spruit
  • Averroistic Themes in Girolamo Cardano<U+0019>s De immortalitate animorum, J.M.G. Valverde
  • Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of Matter: Averroes<U+0019>s Notion of the Imagination and Its Renaissance Interpreters, G. Giglioni
  • The early modern period
  • Cambridge Platonists and Averroism, S. Hutton
  • Reconsidering the Case of Elijah Delmedigo<U+0019>s Averroism and its Impact on Spinoza, C. Fraenkel
  • Averroes and Arabic Philosophy in the Modern Historia philosophica (17th-18th Centuries), G. Piaia
  • Immanuel Kant, Universal Understanding, and the Meaning of Averroism in the German Enlightenment, M. Sgarbi
  • Averroism and modernity
  • Latin Averroism: From Myth to History to Fiction, J. Marenbon
  • Leo Strauss and the Alethiometer, J. Montgomery
  • Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate and its Philosophical Implications, A. Akasoy.

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