: philosophical explorations of medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
/ Remi Brague.
; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, c2009.
xi, 287 p.
; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-278) and index.
The lessons of the Middle Ages -- The meaning and value of philosophy in the three Medieval cultures -- Just how is Islamic philosophy Islamic? -- Is physics interesting? Some responses from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The flesh: A Medieval model of subjectivity -- The denial of humanity: On the judgment "those people are not men" in some ancient and Medieval texts -- Three Muslim views of the Christian city -- The jihād of the philosophers -- Inclusion and digestion: Two models of cultural appropriation, in response to a question of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Tübingen, September 3, 1996) -- The interpreter: Reflections on Arabic translations -- The entry of Aristotle in Europe: The Arab intermediary -- The extra-European sources of philosophic Europe -- Some Mediterranean myths -- Was there any dialogue between religions in the Middle Ages? -- Geocentrism as the humiliation of man -- Was Averroes a "good guy"?