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OverviewThe 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 enquiry: 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Shields (Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy, Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 1.179kg ISBN: 9780190244842ISBN 10: 0190244844 Pages: 732 Publication Date: 04 June 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Notes on the Contributors List of Aristotle's Works I. Aristotle's Philosophical Milieu 1. Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings, Christopher Shields 2. Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science, Edward Hussey 3. Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: a Platonic Provenance, Robert Bolton II. The Framework of Philosophy: Tools and Methods 4. Aristotle's Categorial Scheme, Paul Studtmann 5. De Interpretatione, Hermann Weidemann 6. Aristotle's Logic, Paolo Crivelli 7. Aristotle's Philosophical Method, C. D. C. Reeve 8. Aristotle on Heuristic Enquiry and Demonstration of What It Is, Kei Chiba III. Explanation and Nature 9. Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione, S. Marc Cohen 10. Teleology, David Charles 11. Aristotle on the Infinite, Ursula Coope 12. The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals, James Lennox 13. Aristotle on the Separability of Mind, Fred D. Miller, Jr. IV. Being and Beings 14. Being qua Being, Christopher Shields 15. Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology, Michael Loux 16. Actuality and Potentiality, Stephen Makin 17. Aristotle's Theology, Stephen Menn 18. Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics, David Bostock V. Ethics and Politics 19. Conceptions of Happiness, Terence Irwin 20. Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception, Richard Kraut 21. Aristotle's Politics, Pierre Pellegrin VI. Rhetoric and the Arts 22. Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion, Christof Rapp 23. Aristotle on Poetry, Annamaria Schiaparelli and Paolo Crivelli VII. After Aristotle 24. Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle, Richard Sorabji 25. Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition, Peter Adamson 26. The Latin Aristotle, Robert Pasnau Bibliography Index Locorum Index Nominum Subject IndexReviewsA 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. Highly recommended. CHOICE 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. Highly recommended. -- CHOICE The work succeeds remarkably well in providing a vast panorama of the heterogeneous issues that occupied Aristotle and currently occupy Aristotle scholars. The quality of the contributions is high. And while the bulk of the volume and the degree of sophistication of some contributions risk making it intimidating for beginners, it will prove an invaluable tool for readers already acquainted with ancient philosophy, who wish to familiarise themselves with the interpretative difficulties connected with a particular Aristotelian theme. The many challenging views set out by the contributors are likely to stimulate reflection and debate. -- The Classical Review Author InformationChristopher Shields is George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, Aristotle, Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, and, with Robert Pasnau, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. He is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. Forthcoming is Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Notes. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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