Author : Sarah Pessin
Release : 2013-07-08
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire by : Sarah Pessin
Download or read book Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire written by Sarah Pessin. This book was released on 2013-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy in English, this study completely reinvents the medieval author of the Fountain of Life or Fons Vitae (known to many in the history of philosophy by his Latinized name, Avicebron). Developing Ibn Gabirol's vision in terms of a "Theology of Desire," the book rescues the voice of the eleventh-century Jewish poet-philosopher from centuries of misreadings as it sets out to examine the role of love, desire, and ethical self-transformation in medieval Jewish Neoplatonism.