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Renaissance Averroism and its aftermath
Arabic philosophy in early modern Europe
Abstract
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?
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the starting-point of a lasting debate
pp.37-54
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_2pp.55-64
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_3pp.65-79
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_4pp.81-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_5Agostino Nifo's commentary on the destructio destructionum of Averroes and the nature of celestial influences
pp.99-123
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_6the case of Agostino Nifo
pp.125-144
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_7pp.145-171
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_8Averroes's notion of the imagination and its renaissance interpreters
pp.173-193
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_9pp.213-236
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_11seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
pp.237-253
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_12pp.255-269
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_13the story of a misinterpretation
pp.273-283
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_14the problem, the debate, and its philosophical implications
pp.321-347
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5_16Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2013
Pages: 405
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas
Series volume: 211
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5240-5
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-5239-9
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-5240-5
Full citation:
Akasoy Anna, Giglioni Guido (2013) Renaissance Averroism and its aftermath: Arabic philosophy in early modern Europe. Dordrecht, Springer.