
Being Another Way
The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900-1500
Dustin Klinger(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-0-520-40163-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 charts, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-40163-1 (9780520401631)
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09/2024
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Naval Institute Press
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Person
Dustin D. Klinger is a British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Villa I Tatti and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich.