A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy
A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy
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USDThis is the first comprehensive study of the philosophical achievements of twelfth-century Western Europe. It is the collaboration of fifteen scholars whose detailed survey makes accessible the intellectual preoccupations of the period, with all texts cited in English translation throughout. After a discussion of the cultural context of twelfth-century speculation, and some of the main streams of thought - Platonic, Stoic, and Arabic - that quickened it, comes a characterisation of the new problems and perspectives of the period, in scientific inquiry, speculative grammar, and logic. This is followed by a closer examination of the distinctive features of some of the most innovative thinkers of the time, from Anselm and Abelard to the School of Chartres. A final section shows the impact of newly recovered works of Aristotle in the twelfth-century West.
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"...presents a very useful picture of the current state of scholarship in the areas it addresses. Most chapters are chock-full of useful summaries of scholarship, bibliographical material (much of it from the last twenty years), and indications of the work that remains to be done. These research tools are supplemented by a useful collection of bio-bibliographies, a general bibliography, an index of manuscripts, and a general index (containing both names and subjects)." Review of Metaphysics
Product details
July 1992Paperback
9780521429078
508 pages
226 × 153 × 34 mm
0.74kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction Peter Dronke
- Part I. Background:
- 1. Philosophy, cosmology, and the twelfth-century Renaissance Winthrop Wetherbee
- 2. The platonic inheritance Tullio Gregory
- 3. The Stoic inheritance Michael Lapidge
- 4. The Arabic inheritance Jean Jolivet
- Part II. New Perspectives:
- 5. Scientific speculations Charles Burnett
- 6. Speculative grammar Karin Margareta Fredborg
- 7. Logic (i): from the late eleventh century ot the time of Abelard Martin M. Tweedale
- 8. Logic (ii): the later twelfth century Klaus Jacobi
- Part III. Innovators:
- 9. Anselm of Canterbury Stephen Gersh
- 10. Peter Abelard D. E. Luscombe
- 11. William of Conches Dorothy Elford
- 12. Gilbert of Poitiers a note on the Porretani John Marenbon
- 13. Thierry of Chartres Peter Dronke
- 14. Hermann of Carinthia Charles Burnett
- Part IV. The Entry of the 'New' Aristotle:
- 15. Aristotelian thought in Salerno Danielle Jacquart
- 16. David of Dinant and the beginnings of Aristoteliansim in Paris Enzo Maccagnolo
- Bio-biographies
- General bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index.
