Reason unbound
Subtitle: on spiritual practice in Islamic peripatetic philosophy
By: Mohammad Azadpur
Series: Suny series in western esoteric traditions
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781438437637
Subjects: Islamic philosophy
Description: Peripatetic philosophy is taken to mean the work of Alfarabi and Avicenna, with significant contributions from Ghazali and Averroes and this work is brought into contrast with the dualities of modern rationalism (p. 3).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Islamic philosophy and the crisis of modern rationalism; title: Beyond orientalism and academic rationalism : a critique of the standard readings of Islamic philosophy; title: To the things themselves : Corbin and Heidegger on phenomenological access; title: From the things themselves to prophecy : philosophical cultivation in Islamic peripateticism; title: Disciplining the imagination : intellect, imagination, and prophecy; title: The theologian's dream : imagination and intellectual heresy; title: On human finitude, conscience, and exemplarity : a comparison between Islamic philosophy and phenomenology; title: Importance of Islamic peripateticism for modern philosophy in the West and its impact on later Islamic philosophy.