The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

Andrew LaZella; Richard A. Lee Jr.

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

Andrew LaZella and Richard A. Lee Jr.

In the series The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474450829

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Contents

About this book

19 critical essays on topics and figures central to medieval and Renaissance thought

Organised around topics, concepts and problems distinctive to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Pays attention to the relations between canonical philosophers as well as those not usually treated in standard histories
Challenges the traditional periodisation of philosophy, showing that the thought of these periods is understood in new ways when they are treated as one
Opens a dialogue between philosophers of different periods

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 medieval and Renaissance thought within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.

The essays cover concepts and topics that have become central in the continental tradition. They also bring major philosophers – Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Maimonides and Duns Scotus – into conversation with those not usually considered canonical – Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilius of Padua, Gersonides and Moses Almosnino. Medieval and Renaissance thought is approached with contemporary continental philosophy in view, highlighting the continued richness and relevance of the work from this period.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
General Editors’ Preface Howard Caygill and David Webb Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Editors’ Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Bodies/Pleasures: Embodiment, Affect and Forms of Life
1 Augustine of Hippo in Medieval and Contemporary Dialogues on Embodiment Karmen MacKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Disability, Ableism and Anti-Ableism in Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology Scott M. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 The Art of Excess as a Medieval Aesthetic Lisa Mahoney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4 A Classroom of One’s Own: Medieval Conceptions of Women and Education Maggie Ann Labinski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5 Shame: A Phenomenological Re-examination of Aquinas’s Analysis Daniel Dahlstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part II. Soul and the World/Soul Beyond the World: Experience, Thought and Language
6 Experience in Monastic Theology and Philosophy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Emmanuel Falque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7 Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Non-being Dermot Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
8 Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of Language (Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) Costantino Marmo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
9 A Path to Identity: Meister Eckhart’s Ascesis of the Soul Alberto Martinengo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
10 The Enigma of God and Dialogue in the Midst of an Epochal Threshold: The Case of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) Peter Casarella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Part III. Politics/Community: Justice, Injustice and Power
11 Cosmopolitanism in the Medieval Arabic and Islamic World Josh Hayes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
12 Intellectual Virtues and the Attention to Kairos in Maimonides and Dante Jason Aleksander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
13 Ethics of Property, Ethics of Poverty Pascal Massie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
14 Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance Utopias Georgios Steiris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
15 Religion and Just War in the Conquest of America: Sepúlveda, Las Casas and Vitoria Felipe Castañeda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Part IV. Repetitions: Tradition and Historical Inheritance
16 A Gaping Lacuna: Gersonides’s Apparent Silence About Aristotle’s Ethics/Politics in the Context of the Judeo-Arabic Tradition Idit Dobbs-Weinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
17 Founding Body in Platonism: A Reconsideration of the Tradition from Origen to Cusa Wayne Hankey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
18 ‘Medieval Ethics’ in the History of Philosophy Mark D. Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
19 The Structural Causality of Specific Difference from Medieval Thought to Deleuze and Althusser Eleanor Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 5 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474450829