Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-055217-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 2, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Philosophy in the Islamic World in Context

What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers. In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research. This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.

Zielgruppe

All those intererested in philosophy of language, Islamic intelle

Autoren/Hrsg.

Germann, Nadja

Najafi, Mostafa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Nadja Germann und Mostafa Najafi, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Nadja Germann und Mostafa Najafi, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.