Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle
Author: Avicenna
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9789004039629
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Avicenna's Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle
Author: Dahiyat
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9004620443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvicenna's commentary on the poetics of Aristotle
Author: Ismail M. Dahiyat
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 125
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes
Author: Salim Kemal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1136121226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the studies of Aristotle's Poetics and its related texts in which three Medieval philosophers - Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes - proposed a conception of poetic validity (beauty), and a just relation between subjects in a community (goodness). The work considers the relation of the Poetics to other Aristotelian texts, the transmission of these works to the commentators' context, and the motivations driving the commentators' reception of the texts. The book focuses on issues central to the classical relation of beauty to truth and goodness.
The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna
Author: Salim Kemal
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004093713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an original and important study of philosophical issues in medieval Arabic poetics. Examining the commentaries on Aristotle's "Poetics by Avicenna" in the context of Aristotle's logical theory, the author shows how the philosophers justified the logical and moral power of poetic discourse.
The Texture of the Divine
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-12-09
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0253110874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.
The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond
Author: Bryan Brazeau
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1350078948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception of classical texts of literary criticism, such as Horace's Ars Poetica, Longinus's On the Sublime, and most importantly, Aristotle's Poetics was a crucial part of the intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy. Revisiting the translations, commentaries, lectures, and polemic treatises produced, the contributors apply new interdisciplinary methods from book history, translation studies, history of the emotions and classical reception to them. Placing several early modern Italian poetic texts in dialogue with twentieth-century literary theory for the first time, The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond models contemporary practice and maps out avenues for future study.
Aristotle's Poetics
Author: Stephen Halliwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780226313948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics available in English, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Halliwell goes further than any previous author in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is a fresh appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama, in which Halliwell contends that at the heart of the Poetics lies a philosophical urge to instill a secularized understanding of Greek tragedy. "Essential reading not only for all serious students of the Poetics . . . but also for those—the great majority—who have prudently fought shy of it altogether."—B. R. Rees, Classical Review "A splendid work of scholarship and analysis . . . a brilliant interpretation."—Alexander Nehamas, Times Literary Supplement
Avicenna's Allegory on the Soul
Author: Wilferd Madelung
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-19
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0857727621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought in the Muslim world. The symbolical Poem on the Soul (Qasidat al-nafs), which portrays all earthly human souls as in temporary exile from heaven, is traditionally attributed to Avicenna, and was received with enthusiasm by its commentators. A highly significant commentary on the Qasida was written by ?Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (d. 1215 CE), a major early representative of the Tayyibi Ismaili tradition, which emerged and flourished in medieval Yemen. In his view, the poem encapsulated Tayyibi beliefs, whose doctrines bear striking parallels with late antique Gnosticism. Avicenna s Allegory on the Soul presents the first edition of the Arabic text of Ibn al-Walid s commentary, The Useful Epistle (al-Risala al-mufida), alongside an English translation and extended introduction. It offers invaluable insight into the intricacies of Muslim thought and a deeper understanding of Avicenna s substantial intellectual legacy."
Avicenna
Author: L E Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134977794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKthe philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas, this book offers a factual philosophical portrait. It details Avicenna's account of being as a synthesis between the seemingly irreconcilable extremes of Aristotelian eternalism and the creationism of monotheistic scripture. It examines Avicenna's distinctive theory of knowledge, his ideas about immortality and individuality, including the famous "floating man argument", his contributions to logic, and his probing thoughts on rhetoric and poetics.
