Product Description

This volume provides a scholarly introduction to authors and issues involved in the philosophical discourse of the medieval era.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1123268 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 552 pages

Review
'The wide range of specialists invited to collaborate and the spectrum of approaches they represent guarantee that this volume is representative of present-day medieval philosophy. The picture of the Middle Ages that emerges is illuminating.' - Tijdschrift voor Filosofie on the hb edition

From the Back Cover
Medieval Philosophy is devoted to the period known as the Middle Ages. It considers the rich traditions of Arab, Jewish and Latin philosophy, which began to flourish in the ninth century and continued, in the Latin West, until the early seventeenth century. The volume begins with Boethius, the late antiquity thinker who was enormously influential in the medieval Latin West, and covers a spectrum including Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, Abelard, Aquinas, Aureoli, all the way to medieval logic and the cultural context of medieval philosophy in both Islam and the Christian West. Medieval Philosophy offers fresh perspectives on a complex and rapidly changing area of research, in which Arab and Jewish Philosophy are considered in their own right, rather than, as sources for Latin thinkers, and where the different traditions in medieval philosophy are clearly explained.

About the Author
Contributors: John Marenbon, Jean Jolivet, Alfred Ivry, Colette Sirat, Rosamond McKitterick, Stephen Gersh, Stephen Brown, Stevem Marrone, Brian Davies OP, Sten Ebbesen, Stephen Dumont, Arthur Gibson, Chris Schabel, Paul Vincent Spade, Zé,pm Kaluza, Jorge Gracia