Diagne Open to Reason

Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54617-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Open to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Souleymane Bachir Diagne explains their relevance to our own time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir

Weitere Mitwirkende

Adjemian, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. And How to Not Philosophize?
2. How a Language Becomes Philosophical
3. What Does It Mean for a Philosophy to Be Islamic
4. Against Philosophy?
5. A Lesson in Ecological Philosophy
6. The Obligation to Philosophize
7. The Need for Philosophy
8. The Philosophy of Reform
9. The Philosophy of Movement
10. Pluralism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diagne Souleymane Bachir:
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (PhD, Philosophy, Sorbonne) is Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal (CNRS, 2011), which was awarded the Edouard Glissant Prize and the Dagnan-Bouveret Prize; his books in translation include African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Seagull, 2011) and Islam and Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Codesria, 2011).Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor in the departments of French and philosophy at Columbia University. His books in English include African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (2011) and The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa (2016).