Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left

“There is a fresh and new look at matter, long forgotten. The tone of this look is neither dry like that of the mechanists, nor shy as those in the other world desire; Ibn Sina conveyed it to us, charging it with energy.” In this book, Ernst Bloch takes a look at the golden age of Islamic philosophy through Avicenna and Ibn Rushd and sees an important moment of liberatory thought in this bright period. According to him, these thinkers have built strong bridges extending from the world of revelation, parables, myths and metaphors to the possibilities of the mind. Bloch attributes a historical role to this accumulation of thought in the development of a non-mechanical materialist understanding. Bloch sees the Ibn Sina-Ibn Rushd line as the left wing of Aristotle's intellectual legacy. In his understanding, the main basis of this orientation is the concept of a "living" matter that has the potential to develop and change, contains a possibility, and contains a force. Beyond its concrete area of interest, this small book also serves as an introduction and a guide to Ernst Bloch's own philosophy, who built a metaphysics within Marxism.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Media Type: Paperback

Number of Pages: 120

Size: 13x19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition