Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan
Subtitle: a cross-cultural history of autodidacticism
By: Avner Ben-Zaken.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780801897399
Subjects: Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -- d. 1185; Islamic philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pursuit for the "natural-self" chapter one: taming the mystic (Marrakesh, 1160s); title: Climbing the ladder of philosophy (Barcelona, 1348); title: Rejecting authority, defying predestination and conquering nature (Florence, 1493); title: Employing the self, experimenting nature (Oxford, 1671); title: From individual autodidacts to utopian scientific societies.