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Title The Edinburgh critical history of middle ages and Renaissance philosophy / edited by Andrew LaZella and Richard A. Lee, Jr.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Series The Edinburgh critical history of philosophy
Edinburgh critical history of philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- General Editors' Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I Bodies/Pleasures: Embodiment, Affect and Forms of Life -- 1. Augustine of Hippo in Medieval and Contemporary Dialogues on Embodiment -- 2. Disability, Ableism and Anti-Ableism in Medieval Latin Philosophy and Theology -- 3. The Art of Excess as a Medieval Aesthetic -- 4. A Classroom of One's Own: Medieval Conceptions of Women and Education -- 5. Shame: A Phenomenological Re-examination of Aquinas's Analysis -- Part II Soul and the World/Soul Beyond the World: Experience, Thought and Language
6. Experience in Monastic Theology and Philosophy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 7. Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Non-being -- 8. Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of Language (Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- 9. A Path to Identity: Meister Eckhart's Ascesis of the Soul -- 10. The Enigma of God and Dialogue in the Midst of an Epochal Threshold: The Case of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) -- Part III Politics/Community: Justice, Injustice and Power -- 11. Cosmopolitanism in the Medieval Arabic and Islamic World
12. Intellectual Virtues and the Attention to Kairos in Maimonides and Dante -- 13. Ethics of Property, Ethics of Poverty -- 14. Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance Utopias -- 15. Religion and Just War in the Conquest of America: SepĂșlveda, Las Casas and Vitoria -- Part IV Repetitions: Tradition and Historical Inheritance -- 16. A Gaping Lacuna: Gersonides's Apparent Silence About Aristotle's Ethics/Politics in the Context of the Judeo-Arabic Tradition -- 17. Founding Body in Platonism: A Reconsideration of the Tradition from Origen to Cusa
18. 'Medieval Ethics' in the History of Philosophy -- 19. The Structural Causality of Specific Difference from Medieval Thought to Deleuze and Althusser -- Notes on contributors -- Index
Summary A team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of themes and lines of thought that cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries, opening up new ways to conceptualise the history of this period within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.
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Subject Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
Philosophy, Medieval
Philosophy, Renaissance
Added Author LaZella, Andrew, editor.
Lee, Richard A., Jr., editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjK3vcRWRpMK7xWGBhDJfy
Other Form: Print version: EDINBURGH CRITICAL HISTORY OF MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY. [Place of publication not identified] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2020 1474450806 (OCoLC)1117550518
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