Peter Dronke (ed.)

A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy

Herausgeber: Dronke, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780521429078
• ISBN-10: 0521429072
• Artikelnr.: 21197594

Inhaltsangabe

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.