Ernst Bloch ; translated by Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson.
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
1 online resource (141 pages)
New Directions in Critical Theory
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; A Note on the Text and Translation; Acknowledgments; Introduction, by Loren Goldman; Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Ernst Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory elements of modern thought to medieval Islamic philosophers' encounter with Aristotle. He argues that the great medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) planted the seeds of a radical materialism still relevant for critical theory today.