Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy

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.

List of contents

Editors' Introduction

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

1. Augustine on the Body and its Pleasures
Karmen MacKendrick

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

3. Aesthetic Matters in the Middle Ages
Lisa Mahoney

4. Beyond the Classroom: Gender and Medieval Education
Maggie A. Labinski

5. Shame and Turpitude
Daniel 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 centuries
Emmanuel Falque

7. Medieval Neoplatonism and the Dialectics of Being and Nonbeing
Dermot Moran

8. Medieval Semiotics and Philosophy of Language
Costantino Marmo

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

10. A Dialogical Theology of the Word
Peter Casarella

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

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

12. The Intellectual Virtues and Attention to Kairos
Jason Aleksander

13. Ethics of Property, Ethics of Poverty
Pascal Massie

14. Humanity, Nature, Science and Politics in Renaissance Utopias
Georgios Steiris

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

Part IV. Repetitions: Tradition and Historical Inheritance

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

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

18. Configurations of Medieval 'Ethics'
Mark D. Jordan

19. The Categories and Specific Difference
Eleanor Kaufman

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew LaZella, Richard Lazella Lee, LEE RICHARD A
• Assisted by: Andrew LaZella (Editor), Richard Lee (Editor), Richard A. Lee Jr (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781474450805
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5080-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries