The Appropriation of Islamic Philosophy : Creation in Ricoeur and Avicenna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varlik, Selami, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy.

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avicenna 980-1037.

Avicenna.

Ricœur, Paul.

Islamic philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Revitalises the thinking of Avicenna through Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, demonstrating the relevance of Avicenna's work today and articulating a living Islamic philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Necessity and Difficulties of Appropriation

Chapter 1: Necessity of Appropriation

Why Appropriating Islamic Philosophy

A Philosophy Cut Off from the Present

The Issue of an "Islamic" Philosophy

Double Othering and Forgetting

The Reader and the Appropriation of the Text

The Self in Front of the Text

The Text Requires an Appropriation

The Need for a Hermeneutics of Appropriation

The Impasse of Spiritual Reading

Experience without Concept

Orientalism in Reverse

Relevance of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics

Appropriation in Ricoeur

Tradition and Innovation

Chapter 2: Difficulties in the Appropriation Process

Hermeneutics of Appropriation

Presuppositions of the Subject and Discourse

Pre-Philosophical Belonging of the Text

Presuppositions of the Reader

Innovation in the Text and Transformation of the Self

Upstream Experience and Downstream Innovation

Transformation of the Reader

The Religious Obstacles

Ricoeur's Christian Presuppositions

The Loss-Gain Maxim versus Certain Knowledge

Disappropriation Before Appropriation

Theological Differences with Islam

The Difference of Traditions

Theological and Anthropological Divergences

Part II: A Double Solution in Form and Content

Chapter 3: Possibility of a Common Language

Proximity in Religious Belonging

Opening up to Islam "Step by Step"

Forgotten Inner Otherness

Universality of the Loss-Gain Maxim

Distanciation within Belonging

Finitude-Infinitude Disproportion

The Logos of Belonging

Conceptual Distanciation in Common

Methodological Objectivity in a Formal Plan

Distanciation and Objectivity

Objectivity versus Reader's Illusions

The Metaphor-Concept Duality in the Content.

Autonomy of Conceptual Discourse

The Polysemy of Being in Aristotle and Thomas

Chapter 4: Creation as a Shared Notion

Ricoeur and the Thinking of Creation

Creation in the Process of Appropriation

Primacy of Creation

Creation and Appropriation

Difference between Origin and Beginning

Nontemporal Origin

Creation as a Present Event

Avicenna's Philosophy of Creation

Creation by God In Islam

The Aporia of Kun

The Ambiguity of an Ex Nihilo Creation

Avicenna versus Temporal Creation

Avicenna's Conception of Creation

Critique of the Theological Approach

Part III: Appropriation as Innovation and Transformation

Chapter 5: Creation and Semantic Innovation

Creation and Innovation in Avicenna

Creation Gives Rise to Thought

The Metaphor of the Discourse of Origin

The Aporia of Kun and Polysemy of Being

The Ambiguity of Being

Appropriation of Creation: Thingness and Existence

Debate on Avicenna's Essentialism

Innovation and Appropriation of Avicenna

The Legacy of Essence-Existence Duality

Essence-Existence Tension in Western Thought

Influence on Islamic Thought

Creativity of the Notion of Creation

The Neutrality of Essence

Thought Experiments

Chapter 6: Creation and Transformation of the Self

Causality and Ontological Indigence

Both Necessary and Contingent

Necessity-Contingency Tension

Contingency and Seeing-As

Ontological Poverty in the Present

Logical versus Temporal Contingency

Permanence of the Need for Cause

Causality Against the Domination of the Subject

Awareness of Ontological Dependence

Causal Knowledge of Contingency

Indifference Toward the Contingent

Dispossession of Knowledge and Otherness

Epistemological and Ethical Dispossession

Unity of Truth and Disagreement

Conclusion

Notes

Introduction.

Part I Necessity and Difficulties of Appropriation

Chapter A

Chapter B

Part II A Double Solution in Form and Content

Part III Appropriation as Innovation and Transformation

Bibliography

Primary sources

Ricoeur

Avicenna

Secondary sources

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-57055-9

1-350-57053-2

9781350570535

OCLC:

1559232632