TY  - BOOK
AU  - al-Tawḥīdī,Abū Ḥayyān
AU  - Miskawayh,Abū ʿAlī
AU  - Montgomery,James E.
AU  - Orfali,Bilal
AU  - Pomerantz,Maurice A.
AU  - Vasalou,Sophia
TI  - The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two 
T2  - Library of Arabic Literature
SN  - 9781479834600
AV  - PJ7750.A26 H313 2019
U1  - 181/.6 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Authors, Arab
KW  - To 1258
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Islamic philosophy
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Iran
KW  - 10th century
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi to the philosopher and historian Abu 'Ali Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth century. The correspondence between al-Tawhidi and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates and preoccupations of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, wondering and brooding, trivial and profound, al-Tawhidi's questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. This new edition of The Philosopher Responds is accompanied by the first full-length English translation of this important text, bringing this interaction to life for the English reader
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ER  -