The Oxford handbook of Aristotle /

The Oxford handbook of Aristotle /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description:xx, 710 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
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Aristotle.
Aristotle.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8858655
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Other authors / contributors:Shields, Christopher John.
ISBN:9780195187489 (alk. paper)
0195187482 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-695) and index.
Summary:"The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today: such activity ranges from the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this Handbook: textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. No one of these enterprises exhausts the field. On the contrary, one of the most welcome and enlivening features of the contemporary Aristotelian scene is precisely the cross-fertilization these mutually beneficial and complementary activities offer one another. The volume, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian philosophy and intellectual inquiry: ethics, metaphysics, politics, logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also, and distinctively, looks both backwards and forwards: two chapters recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chapters chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy, in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West." -- Publisher's website.
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A must-buy for libraries, this book brings together 25 of the world's top Aristotle scholars. Shields's editorial work is superb, and his own contributions are lucid. Classified traditionally into sections on logic, natural explanation, ontology, ethics and politics, and rhetoric, this volume is perfect for an advanced seminar. In most cases, each contributor focuses on the development of Aristotle's argument within a given work, highlighting internal problems and questions. Aristotle's Metaphysics gets a fuller treatment, across five chapters; a useful coda of three chapters, "After Aristotle," focuses on his influence on the philosophy of language and on Arabic and Latin commentators. But the overall goal of this handbook is to serve as an advanced introduction to Aristotle's corpus, not to pursue and defend intertextual constructions and competing contemporary interpretations of Aristotle's theory, development, sources, or influences. It stands in contrast to the four volumes edited by Jonathan Barnes, Malcolm Schofield, and Richard Sorabji, titled Articles on Aristotle (v.1, CH, Sep'76; v.2-4, CH, Mar'80), for example. Many chapters stand out: David Charles's "Teleological Causation," Paul Studtman's "Aristotle's Categorical Scheme," Stephen Menn's broadly probing "Aristotle's Theology," and David Bostock's "Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics." Contributors' chapter bibliographies are consistently excellent. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. P. W. Wakefield Emory University

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