The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

by Andrew LaZella (Editor), Richard A. Lee, Jr. (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474450805
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	05/26/2020
Series:	The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew LaZella is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He is the author of The Singular Voice of Being: John Duns Scotus, Ultimate Difference and the Univocity of Being (Fordham UniversityPress, 2019). He is co-editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy (EUP, 2020). He is co-series editor of the EUP Cycles series.

Richard A. Lee, Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. He is the author of The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force (Palgrave, 2002) and Science, the Singular and the Question of Theology (Palgrave, 2002).

Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Part I: Bodies/Pleasures: Embodiment, Affect and Forms of Life

1. Augustine on the Body and its PleasuresKarmen MacKendrick

2. Disability, Ableism and Anti-Ableism in Medieval Latin Philosophy and TheologyScott M. Williams

3. Aesthetic Matters in the Middle AgesLisa Mahoney

4. Beyond the Classroom: Gender and Medieval EducationMaggie A. Labinski

5. Shame and TurpitudeDaniel Dahlstrom

Part II: Soul and the World/Soul Beyond the World: Experience, Thought and Language

6. Experience in Monastic Theology and Philosophy in the 11th and 12th centuriesEmmanuel Falque

7. Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and NonbeingDermot Moran

8. Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of LanguageCostantino Marmo

9. Mystical Ascesis and the Soul's Path to IdentityAlberto Martinengo

10. A Dialogical Theology of the WordPeter Casarella

Part III: Politics/Community: Justice, Injustice and Power

11. Cosmos and Community: The Ecumenical Origins of Arabic CosmopolitanismJoshua Hayes

12. The Intellectual Virtues and Attention to KairosJason Aleksander

13. Ethics of Property, Ethics of PovertyPascal Massie

14. Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance UtopiasGeorgios Steiris

15. Religion, Natural Law and Just War in The Conquest of AmericaFelipe Casteñeda

Part IV. Repetitions: Tradition and Historical Inheritance

16. The Role of the Nicomachean Ethics in the Medieval Jewish and Islamic Commentary TraditionsIdit Dobbs-Weinstein

17. Founding Body in Platonism: A Reconsideration of the Tradition from Origen to CusaWayne Hankey

18. Configurations of Medieval ‘Ethics’Mark D. Jordan

19. The Categories and Specific DifferenceEleanor Kaufman