Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Averroes against Avicenna on Human Spontaneous Generation: The Starting-Point of a Lasting Debate....Pages 37-54
Revisiting the 1552–1550 and 1562 Aristotle-Averroes Edition....Pages 55-64
Humanism and the Assessment of Averroes in the Renaissance....Pages 65-79
Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian Mind, and the Monster of Averroes....Pages 81-97
The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences....Pages 99-123
Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition: The Case of Agostino Nifo....Pages 125-144
Averroistic Themes in Girolamo Cardano’s De Immortalitate Animorum ....Pages 145-171
Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of Matter: Averroes’s Notion of the Imagination and Its Renaissance Interpreters....Pages 173-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
The Cambridge Platonists and Averroes....Pages 197-211
Reconsidering the Case of Elijah Delmedigo’s Averroism and Its Impact on Spinoza....Pages 213-236
Averroes and Arabic Philosophy in the Modern Historia Philosophica : Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 237-253
Immanuel Kant, Universal Understanding, and the Meaning of Averroism in the German Enlightenment....Pages 255-269
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Ernest Renan and Averroism: The Story of a Misinterpretation....Pages 273-283
Leo Strauss and the Alethiometer....Pages 285-320
Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate, and Its Philosophical Implications....Pages 321-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-405