The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

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This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Rémi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Their disparate philosophical worlds, Brague shows, were grounded in different models of revelation that engendered divergent interpretations of the ancient Greek sources they held in common. So, despite striking similarities in their solutions for the philosophical problems they all faced, intellectuals in each theological tradition often viewed the others’ ideas with skepticism, if not ...

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Overview

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Rémi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Their disparate philosophical worlds, Brague shows, were grounded in different models of revelation that engendered divergent interpretations of the ancient Greek sources they held in common. So, despite striking similarities in their solutions for the philosophical problems they all faced, intellectuals in each theological tradition often viewed the others’ ideas with skepticism, if not disdain. Brague’s portrayal of this misunderstood age brings to life not only its philosophical and theological nuances, but also lessons for our own time.

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"All of the essays offer fascinating insights into all manner of topics of interest to medieval thinkers. . . . Brague shows not only an encyclopedic and detailed grasp of his sources, but also a penchant for tying these to contemporary interests in intriguing, creative ways. . . . This truly is an informative, engaging, and very readable book that will be very useful to anyone with an intellectual interest in things medieval."

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"Brague shows [how] the subtle, often acrimonious interplay between Judaism, Christianity and Islam helped to create the advanced thought of the Middle Ages—a phrase that, after reading Brague's book, no longer sounds like an oxymoron."

— Adam Kirsch

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"This account will illuminate novices as well as adepts embarked on a shared journey into a fascinating world. . . . By using contemporary reflections on hermeneutics and other sophisticated tools . . . [Brague] deftly introduces us into this world in a way that helps us attain the consciousness demanded to understand 'the other,' so as to better appreciate our own limitations. In fact, that correlative activity of coming to understand ourselves as we seek to understand the other fairly defines the journey on which these essays launch us. So it could best be described as an exercise in self-understating, facilitated by a rich store of historical examples, deftly employed."

— David Burrell

Library Journal

Brague (philosophy, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; The Law of God) challenges perceptions of the Middle Ages as a period lacking in intellectual sophistication or as a time of interfaith dialog that could serve as a model today. In an initial interview and 16 essays (only three of which have previously appeared in English), Brague focuses on the philosophers of three great religious civilizations, particularly their use of Aristotelian Greek philosophy in ways congruent with their own religions and especially with their differing ideas of revelation as centered in the person of Jesus Christ; as found in God's historical interactions with the Jewish people; or as derived from direct revelation of an infallible word/book, the Koran. Throughout, Brague focuses on comparisons or relationships among three great civilizations and on carefully nuanced but essential difference. VERDICT Highly recommended to scholars of the Middle Ages as well as those in philosophy and religion more generally. They will all be enlightened by careful reading of this book.—Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Univ., Farmville, VA


—Carolyn M. Craft

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226070803
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 4/15/2009
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 755,686
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 3.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Rémi Brague is professor of philosophy at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the University of Munich. He is the author of nine other books, including The Law of God and The Wisdom of the World, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Interview 1

Pt. I Generalities

1 The Lessons of the Middle Ages 25

2 The Meaning and Value of Philosophy in the Three Medieval Cultures 41

3 Just How Is Islamic Philosophy Islamic? 57

Pt. II Common Themes

4 Is Physics Interesting? Some Responses from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 73

5 The Flesh: A Medieval Model of Subjectivity 91

6 The Denial of Humanity: On the Judgment Those People Are Not Men in Some Ancient and Medieval Texts 107

Pt. III Comparisons

7 Three Muslim Views of the Christian City 121

8 The Jihad of the Philosophers 131

Pt. IV Filiations

9 Inclusion and Digestion: Two Models of Cultural Appropriation, in Response to a Question of Hans-George Gadamer (Tubingen, September 3, 1996) 145

10 The Interpreter: Reflections on Arabic Translations 159

11 The Entry of Aristotle in Europe: The Arab Intermediary 169

12 The Extra-European Sources of Philosophic Europe 175

Pt. V Pricked Balloons

13 Some Mediterranean Myths 185

14 Was There Any Dialogue between Religions in the Middle Ages? 193

15 Geocentrism as the Humiliation of Man 203

16 Was Averroes a "Good Guy"? 221

App Original Texts 231

Notes 235

Index 279

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