The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy / / Andrew LaZella, Richard A. Lee Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: LaZella, Andrew,; Lee Jr., Richard A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Aleksander, Jason,; Casarella, Peter,; Castañeda, Felipe,; Caygill, Howard,; Dahlstrom, Daniel,; Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit,; Falque, Emmanuel,; Hankey, Wayne,; Hayes, Josh,; Jordan, Mark D.,; Kaufman, Eleanor,; Labinski, Maggie Ann,; MacKendrick, Karmen,; Mahoney, Lisa,; Marmo, Costantino,; Martinengo, Alberto,; Massie, Pascal,; Moran, Dermot,; Steiris, Georgios,; Webb, David,; Williams, Scott M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy : ECHP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations

19 critical essays on topics and figures central to medieval and Renaissance thoughtOrganised around topics, concepts and problems distinctive to the Middle Ages and the RenaissancePays attention to the relations between canonical philosophers as well as those not usually treated in standard historiesChallenges the traditional periodisation of philosophy, showing that the thought of these periods is understood in new ways when they are treated as oneOpens a dialogue between philosophers of different periodsWritten 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Editors’ Preface -- Editors’ Introduction -- Part I. Bodies/Pleasures: Embodiment, Affect and Forms of Life -- 1 Augustine of Hippo in Medieval and Contemporary Dialogues on Embodiment -- 2 Disability, Ableism and Anti-Ableism in Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology -- 3 The Art of Excess as a Medieval Aesthetic -- 4 A Classroom of One’s Own: Medieval Conceptions of Women and Education -- 5 Shame: A Phenomenological Re-examination of Aquinas’s Analysis -- 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 -- 7 Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Non-being -- 8 Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of Language (Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- 9 A Path to Identity: Meister Eckhart’s Ascesis of the Soul -- 10 The Enigma of God and Dialogue in the Midst of an Epochal Threshold: The Case of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) -- Part III. Politics/Community: Justice, Injustice and Power -- 11 Cosmopolitanism in the Medieval Arabic and Islamic World -- 12 Intellectual Virtues and the Attention to Kairos in Maimonides and Dante -- 13 Ethics of Property, Ethics of Poverty -- 14 Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance Utopias -- 15 Religion and Just War in the Conquest of America: Sepúlveda, Las Casas and Vitoria -- 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 -- 17 Founding Body in Platonism: A Reconsideration of the Tradition from Origen to Cusa -- 18 ‘Medieval Ethics’ in the History of Philosophy -- 19 The Structural Causality of Specific Difference from Medieval Thought to Deleuze and Althusser -- Notes on contributors -- Index