The legend of the Middle Ages : philosophical explorations of medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam / Rémi Brague ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Au moyen du Moyen Age. English

9780226070803 (alk. paper)
0226070808 (alk. paper)

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

English

xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

B721 .B7213 2009

189

Modern interpreters have variously cast the Middle Ages as a benighted past from which the West had to evolve and, more recently, as the model for a potential future of intercultural dialogue and tolerance. The Legend of the Middle Agescuts through such oversimplifications to reconstruct a complicated and philosophically rich period that remains deeply relevant to the contemporary world. Featuring a penetrating interview and sixteen essaysonly three of which have previously appeared in English this volume explores key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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