9781479834600-1479834602-The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 24)

The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 24)

ISBN-13: 9781479834600
ISBN-10: 1479834602
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, Bilal Orfali, Maurice A. Pomerantz
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 372 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781479834600
ISBN-10: 1479834602
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, Bilal Orfali, Maurice A. Pomerantz
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 372 pages

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The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 24) (ISBN-13: 9781479834600 and ISBN-10: 1479834602), written by authors Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, Bilal Orfali, Maurice A. Pomerantz, was published by NYU Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Eastern (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 24) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Eastern books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.56.

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Questions and answers from two great philosophers

Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi to the philosopher and historian Abu 'Ali Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world
during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth century.

The correspondence between al-Tawhidi and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates and preoccupations of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers.

Alternately whimsical and tragic, wondering and brooding, trivial and profound, al-Tawhidi’s questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. This new edition of The Philosopher Responds is accompanied by the first full-length English translation of this important text, bringing this interaction to life for the English reader.

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