Alain de Libera is a professor of philosophy French born in 1948. Specialist in medieval philosophy , he is, since 1985, director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes , where he teaches the history of Christian theology in the medieval West , and from 1997 to 2008, professor at the University of Geneva. Since September 2008, he taught again at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
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Alain de Libera defends a pluralistic approach to Reason. He said the history of reason is not confined to the history of philosophy. There are several uses of reason, each with their standards , their own requirements. Thus, there is a rational philosophical, theological rationality, legal rationality, a scientific rationality, etc.. As an historian , he thinks that every text must be studied back in the historical context of its standard rational to avoid many misinterpretations and anachronisms.
For example, the Treaty critical of Averroes will not be considered as a philosophical text on the relation of reason and revelation , but as a legal opinion (a fatwa ) concerning the legal status of philosophy within of Islam.
Alain de Libera Sic directs the collection and non co-directs the collection Studies in Medieval Philosophy Vrin and collection work for Penguin.
Case Aristotle
Alain de Libera has led the charge against the medievalist Sylvain Gouguenheim in "Aristotle's case, a violent controversy over the contribution of civilization Arab-Muslim to Western reason and the Enlightenment , which occurred following the publication of the book Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel Publications Trial and literature
- Medieval Philosophy, Coll. What do I know? , with PUF , 1989. ( ISBN 2-13-051580-0 ).
- Albert the Great and Philosophy, Vrin , 1990. ( ISBN 2-7116-1015-2 ).
- Thinking in the Middle Ages, Editions du Seuil , 1991. ( ISBN 2-02-013199-4 ). ; Al. "Points," 1996.
- Averroes and Averroism, What do I know?, PUF, 1991. ( ISBN 2-13-044203-X )
- Medieval Philosophy, Coll. Undergraduate, PUF, 1993. ( ISBN 2-13-046000-3 ).
- The Mystique Rhine. D'Albert the Great to Meister Eckhart, Paris, Ed. du Seuil, coll. "Points", 1994. ( ISBN 2-02-021112-2 ).
- "The gift of Islam to the West", in C. David and J.-P. de Tonnac, ed. The West in search of meaning, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1996 189-196.
- The Quarrel of the Universals of Plato to the late Middle Ages, Seuil, 1996. ( ISBN 2-02-024756-9 ).
- Eckhart, Suso, Tauler, or the deification of man, Paris, Bayard, 1996. ( ISBN 2-227-32508-9 ).
- Meister Eckhart and the Rhineland mystics, Paris, Editions du Cerf , 1999. ( ISBN 2-204-05981-1 ).
- The Art of generalities. Theories of abstraction, Paris, Aubier, 1999. ( ISBN 2-7007-3355-X ).
- Morgen schtarbe, Flammarion, 1999.
- "For Averroes". Introduction to Averroes. Islam and Reason, Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2000 9-76. ( ISBN 2-08-071132-6 ).
- Reference empty. Theories of the proposal, Paris, PUF, 2002. ( ISBN 2-13-051619-X ).
- Reason and Faith. Archaeology of a crisis, Albert the Great to Pope John Paul II, Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 2003. ( ISBN 2-02-061287-9 ).
- Thomas Aquinas. The Unity of the Intellect against Averroes, Paris, Vrin, 2004. ( ISBN 2-7116-1681-9 ).
- Metaphysics and noetic. Albert the Great, Paris, Vrin, 2005. ( ISBN 2-7116-1638-X ).
- Archaeology of the subject. I. Subject's birth, Paris, Vrin, 2007. ( ISBN 978-2-7116-1927-6 ).
- Archaeology of the subject. II. The quest for identity, Paris, Vrin, 2008. ( ISBN 2711619745 ).
- Latins speak to the Latins, in Ph. Buttgen, A. Libera, M. Rashed & I. Rosier-Catach, ed., Greeks, Arabs and us: Survey Islamophobia scholarly, Paris, Fayard, 2009. ( ISBN 978-2213651385 ).
Translations and Introductions
- Porphyry , Isagoge; Greek and Latin texts, trans. by Alain de Libera and Alain Philippe Segond. Paris, J. Vrin, 1998. (Sic et Non). CLXIII-100p. ( ISBN 2-7116-1344-5 ).
- Averroes , intelligence and thought, GF-Flammarion, 1999.
- Averroes , decisive Speech, trans. Geoffroy, Alain de Libera introduction, 1999.
- Thomas Aquinas , Against Averroes, GF-Flammarion, 1999.
- Meister Eckhart , Treaties and sermons, GF-Flammarion, 1999.
In collaboration
- With Emile Zum Brunn: Meister Eckhart. Metaphysics of the Word and negative theology, ed. Beauchesne, 1997. ( ISBN 2701010721 ).
- With Claude Gauvard and other experts: Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Paris, PUF, 1st edition, 2002, ( ISBN 2130530575 ).
Homage to Alain de Libera
- Alexandrine Schniewind (ed.), Christophe Erismann (ed.), Complimentary substance. Studies on the properties offered for accidental Alain de Libera, eds. Vrin, 2008. ( ISBN 2711619931 ).
Notes
- For Alain de Libera, "The hypothesis of Mont-Saint-Michel, the missing link in the history of the passage of the Aristotelian philosophy of the Greek world to the Latin world celebrated hastily by Islamophobia usually as important as reassessment of the role of authentic Mre Poulard in the history of the omelet "in Landerneau land of Islam , article in Telerama April 28, 2008
Links and external documents
- personal page (under "Bibliography" lists all of its contributions in the history of medieval philosophy).
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