Being another way: the copula and Arabic philosophy of language, 900–1500
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Beteilige Person: Klinger, Dustin D. 1989- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:The Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship 6
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Links:https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.201
https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.201
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520401648
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18799923
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146382
Abstract:"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, Klinger 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"--
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 273 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780520401648
DOI:10.1525/luminos.201