Tahafut Al-tahafut/ the Incoherence of the Incoherence (1-2) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0906094569 ISBN 13 : 9780906094563

Editeur : Gibb Memorial Trust, 2008

Synopsis

Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, written not long after 1180, is his major work and the one in which his original philosophical doctrine is to be found. It takes the form of a refutation of Ghazali's Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a work begun in 1095 which attacked philosophical speculation and declared some of the beliefs of the Philosophers to be contrary to Islam. Averroes sets his Aristotelian views in contrast with the Neo-Platonist ones attributed to the philosophers by Ghazali.
Published in the UNESCO Collection of Great Works under the auspices of the Gibb Memorial Trust and the International Commission for the Translation of Great Works.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Now available in English for the first time, Franco Ferraris important Sapphos Gift: The Poet and Her Community offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the ancient worlds most brilliant poets. One of the very few women writers whose works have survived from antiquity, Sappho occupies a unique spot in literature in part because of her gender but more importantly because of the light she sheds on her time and place Archaic Greece. Ferraris study begins with the fragmentary evidence about the poems provided by papyri, and moves on to consider Sapphos iconography, the types of poems and their occasions, and her audience, meaning both her immediate circle of companions as well as competing groups and people in the larger community. Franco Ferrari is professor of Greek literature at the University of Aquila. He is the author of six books and many articles on Greek literature, and his version of Sappho's songs (Rizzoli, 1987) won the Latina prize. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) has most recently written The New Simonides and Theocritus (forthcoming 2009); Lucia Prauscello (Trinity Hall, Cambridge University) is the author of Singing Alexandria: Music between Practice and Textual Transmission.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0906094569
• ISBN 13: 9780906094563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 632
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible