Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan
Subtitle: a cross-cultural history of autodidacticism
By: Avner Ben-Zaken
Series: History of science
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780801897399
Subjects: Islamic philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the pursuit for the "natural-self"; title: Taming the mystic (Marrakesh, 1160s); title: Climbing the ladder of philosophy (Barcelona, 1348); title: Defying authority, defying predestination and conquering nature (Florence, 1493); title: Employing the self and experimenting with nature (Oxford, 1671); title: Conclusion : sampling the history of autodidacticism.