Table of Contents
Preface
Translator’s Note
Interview
PART I GENERALITIES
1 The Lessons of the Middle Ages
2 The Meaning and Value of Philosophy in the Three Medieval Cultures
3 Just How Is Islamic Philosophy Islamic?
PART II COMMON THEMES
4 Is Physics Interesting? Some Responses from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
5 The Flesh: A Medieval Model of Subjectivity
6 The Denial of Humanity: On the Judgment “These People Are Not Men” in Some Ancient and Medieval Texts
PART III COMPARISONS
7 Three Muslim Views of the Christian City
8 The Jihad of the Philosophers
PART IV FILIATIONS
9 Inclusion and Digestion: Two Models of Cultural Appropriation, in Response to a Question of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Tübingen, September 3, 1996)
10 The Interpreter: Reflections on Arabic Translations
11 The Entry of Aristotle in Europe: The Arab Intermediary
12 The Extra-European Sources of Philosophic Europe
PART V PRICKED BALLOONS
13 Some Mediterranean Myths
14 Was There Any Dialogue between Religions in the Middle Ages?
15 Geocentrism as the Humiliation of Man
16 Was Averroes a “Good Guy”?
Appendix: Original Texts
Notes