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Being Another Way
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Being Another Way

The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500

Klinger, Dustin

Editorial: University of California Press

Colección: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

Número de páginas: 294 págs.  22.9 x 15.2 cm  

Fecha de edición: 30-09-2024

EAN: 9780520401631

ISBN: 978-0-520-40163-1

Precio (sin IVA): 41,07 €

Precio (IVA incluído): 42,71 €

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula “to be,” an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from within a language that has no copula, a group of increasingly independent Arabic philosophers began to critically investigate the semantic role that Aristotle, for many centuries their philosophical authority, invested in the copula as the basis of his logic. Drawing on extensive manuscript research, Klinger breaks through the thicket of unstudied philosophical works to demonstrate the creativity of postclassical Islamic scholarship as it explored the consequences of its intellectual break with the past. Against the still widespread view that intellectual ferment all but disappeared during the period, he shows how these intellectuals over the centuries developed and refined a sophisticated philosophy of language that speaks to core concerns of contemporary linguistics and philosophy.

 

Características

Idioma:
Inglés
País de edición:
Estados Unidos de América
Encuadernación:
Rústica
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