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Journal articles on the topic "Mediaeval reception of a philosophical text"
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Weldon, James. "Ordinatio and genre in ms ccc 201: A mediaeval reading of the b-text of piers plowman." Florilegium 12, no. 1 (January 1993): 159–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.12.010.
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Scripture’s remark to Will in Piers Plowman.B, “I nel noght scorne . . . but if scryveynes lye” (B.X.331), acknowledges the possibility o f scribal inaccuracy, capturing both the reality o f mediaeval manuscript traditions and the frustration o f editors who wrestle to distinguish authorial from scribal readings of a text. From the point o f view o f author or editor, scribal “corruptions” interfere with the important processes of creation and dissemination of a literary work— in the case of Piers Plowman.B, surviving manuscripts not only have scribal corruptions, but are themselves copies o f an unusually corrupt copy (Kane-Donaldson 96-97, 128-29). As readers, we instinctively side with the editors and poets, but over the gulfs of time in the wake of centuries o f the writer’s absence, we perhaps should pause, as B.A. Windeatt suggests, to reconsider the “scryveynes lye” and to understand it also as a mediaeval response to a mediaeval text (1979, 122). Although at opposite poles in their own responses to scribal contributions, both Kane and Windeatt narrow “scribal response” to signify textual variation— the glossing and rewriting of the text, but manuscript layout (ordinatio and compilatio, for example) also fashions and interprets the text. In Oxford MS Corpus Christi College 201, manuscript arrangement and “corruption” together manipulate the text aggressively in ways that frequently demonstrate intelligent scribal reception of a complicated text; the “scryveynes lye” becomes here a contemporary response, a mediaeval guide to our own potential reading of Piers Plowman.
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Bruce, Scott G. "Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Volume XII. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022, 559 pp." Mediaevistik 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 327–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2022.01.32.
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Abstract The twelfth volume of Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC) marks a departure from earlier books in this series by focusing on the reception history of a single text: the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, otherwise known as Ovid. This book has been decades in the making. It began in the late 1970s, when Virginia Brown, then a member of the editorial board of CTC, commissioned Frank T. Coulson to compose an article on the medieval reception of Ovid’s most famous poem and the late Harry Louis Levy (1906–1981) to contribute information on the early modern commentaries. Coulson later collaborated with Harald Anderson to write the essay on the fortuna of the Metamorphoses and the sections on its commentary tradition and translation history. The result of the industry of these three scholars is well worth the wait. This massive instrument of reference is a monumental contribution to our understanding of the reception of Ovid’s poem in the medieval and early modern periods and the most important addition to Ovidian reception studies in modern scholarship. Exhaustive in its thoroughness and immaculate in its presentation, this book will enlighten and inform scholars and students of the Metamorphoses for decades to come.
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Szabóová, Lucia. "Recepčná estetika Wolfganga Isera a Hansa-Roberta Jaußa ako jeden zo spôsobov hľadania významu literárneho textu." Nová filologická revue 14, no. 1 (July 25, 2022): 118–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/nfr.2022.14.1.118-130.
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Reception theory deals with the reception of literary text itself as well as its effect on a potential reader. On one hand, the reception aesthetics examines how readers in different historical situations react to a literary text, and thus deals with real readers whose reactions point to a certain historically conditioned literary experience. On the other hand, Wolfgang Iser's Theory of the Aesthetic Response observes the impact of a literary text on its implied reader and how it provokes a reaction. The aim of this study is to emphasize (in some moments) the variously used and applied theoretical and philosophical starting points in Wolfgang Iser's reception aesthetics and the reception theory of Hans-Robert Jauß.
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Williams, Geraint. "Changing Reputations and Interpretations in the History of Political Thought: J.S. Mill." Politics 15, no. 3 (September 1995): 183–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1995.tb00138.x.
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Students of political thought generally focus on the context in which the writer produced his or her work or on the present philosophical or political importance of the text. A neglected area is the reception of the work by contemporaries and the subsequent reputation which the writer enjoyed, both in terms of philosophical coherence and political acceptability. This article looks at the changes in Mill's public image and in the philosophical evaluation given him by commentators from his own day to the present.
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Takahashi, Hidemi. "Syriac as the Intermediary in Scientific Graeco-Arabica: Some Historical and Philological Observations." Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 3, no. 1-2 (2015): 66–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212943x-00301004.
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The reception of Greek scientific and philosophical literature in Syriac, which had a major influence on the later reception in Arabic, is an area that has been the subject of a renewed wave of research in the past few years. This paper provides a brief overview of the reception of the Greek sciences in Syriac, citing some of the latest research in the field. This is followed by the presentation of an example to illustrate how the Syriac intermediary text, when available, can help to elucidate the process of translation into Arabic, together with some observations on the ways in which the Syriac reception of the Greek sciences influenced the later reception in Arabic.
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SINHA, MISHKA. "CORRIGIBILITY, ALLEGORY, UNIVERSALITY: A HISTORY OF THE GITA'S TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION, 1785–1945." Modern Intellectual History 7, no. 2 (July 1, 2010): 297–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244310000089.
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This essay lays out a history of the translation, interpretation, transmission and reception of the Bhagavad Gita as a cultural, religious and philosophical text in the West from 1785 to 1945; in doing so it focuses primarily on Britain, although it also refers to other contexts of reception where they are connected to the British context, or to present revealing or helpful comparisons. The object of the essay is to investigate relationships between the Gita's interpretive history and assumptions about the Gita, both as a transcultural philosophical source and as an essentially Hindu religious text, which have been in place since the twentieth century. Although there have been other transnational surveys and histories of the Gita's translation, this essay differs from them in positing a specific period of interpretation between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, during which time, it argues, the Gita as a received and translated text was significantly altered in certain specific ways which continue to influence its present understanding both in the West and in India.
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Andreichuk, Ksenia R. "Notes from the Underground: Major Trends in Swedish Reception." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 130–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-130-151.
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Notes from the Underground has become a relevant text in Sweden only since the second half of the 20 th century, primarily due to the emergence of translations and criticism, but also in connection with the construction of “the people’s home” (“folkhemmet”), which is what a Swedish person thinks about when reading about Crystal Palace. However, not only social ideas attract Swedish readers in Notes from the Underground; the problems of human isolation, desire, and inability to love another person more than oneself, as well as the worldview of a “paradoxalist” are also relevant to them. The multi-layered text of Notes from the Underground has not remained unnoticed either. The article examines several instances of the Notes from the Underground reception in Swedish literature, namely social and philosophical (Sven Delblank, Lars Ahlin), socio-religious (Birgitta Trotzig), existentialist (Lars Gyllensten), and aesthetic (Lars Ahlin). It is worth mentioning that even when referring to Dostoevsky’s work in social debates, Swedish authors almost never ignore its philosophical context or reduce the universal human issues raised by the novel to the purely social issues projecting them on Swedish reality.
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Lauta, O. D., and S. M. Geiko. "Phenomenolological review v. cierer of reading proceedings in the context of its «litery anthropology»." Humanitarian studios: pedagogics, psychology, philosophy 1, no. 100 (April 30, 2020): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31548/hspedagog2020.01.064.
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The phenomenological review of V. Izer's reading process in the context of «literary anthropology» is analyzed. The philosopher makes a distinction between interpretation and reception. The first, in his opinion, gives the imagination a «semantic definition», and the second – a sense of aesthetic, object. The first passes within the limits of the «semantic orientations» of the literary theory, and the second – within the limits of the cultural and anthropological context. The article deals with the philosophical analysis of the reception aesthetics. For the supporters of this theoretical direction, there is an inherent shift of attention from the problems of creativity and literary work to the problem of its reception or, in other words, from the level of psychological, sociological or anthropological interpretation of the creative biography, to the level of perceived consciousness. Receptive aesthetics gives the reader privilege in the «text/reader» paradigm and gives him the cognitive and affective ability to create his own text from this text.
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Ometiță, Mihai. "Hermeneutic Violence and Interpretive Conflict." Studia Phaenomenologica 19 (2019): 175–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studphaen2019199.
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The paper aims to rectify the reception of Heidegger’s so-called “hermeneutic violence,” by addressing the under-investigated issue of its actual target and rationale. Since the publication of Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, some of Heidegger’s contemporary readers, such as Cassirer, as well as more recent commentators, accused Heidegger of doing violence to Kant’s and other philosophers’ texts. I show how the rationale of Heidegger’s self-acknowledged violence becomes tenable in light of his personal notes on his Kant book, and of several hermeneutic tenets from Being and Time. The violence at stake turns out to be a genuine method, involving the appropriation (Zueignen) and the elaboration (Ausarbeiten) of an interpreted text. Its target, I argue, is not the text itself, as it was often assumed, but its reception by a community or tradition. Thus, that violence may well instill interpretive conflict, yet its purpose is to salvage a text from a conventional and ossified reception, namely, from what Heidegger regards as the authoritarianism of idle talk (Gerede) in a philosophical milieu.
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بصافي, رشيدة. "الترجمة المرجعية المعرفية والمنهجية لنظرية التلقي." Traduction et Langues 13, no. 1 (August 31, 2015): 71–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/translang.v13i1.833.
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Cognitive and methodological reference translation of the theory of reception
The most prominent feature of the concept of reception in cognitive reality and literature is that it falls into a kind of conflict between existentialism and its philosophical and logical directions and conceptions. This led to the occurrence of ideological political conflicts in German thought with the Marxist system; which opposed the reception theory. On the other hand, we realized that the theory of reception gives great attention to attributing complete freedom to the individual in order to live his existential and cognitive reality; a fact that made the theory of reception a revolution against this system, which tightened its grip on the reader, making him directed by this compulsion for a long time in Germany. On the basis of these assumptions, the theory of reception built its critical and cognitive principles on the fact that the reality of the text is just an image without dimensions. Perhaps what prompted this kind of study and the cognitive vision adopted by the reception theory in its traetment of the cognitive reality, namely the literary text, its great interest in the merit of reception and the principle of perception itself. These principles, which became later the main pillar in the theory of reception, are perhaps the most important ones: the freedom of the reader, the making of meaning or the concept through participation, and finally the essential purpose of aesthetic pleasure.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mediaeval reception of a philosophical text"
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Revello, Veronica. "Le Timée de Cicéron : histoire d'un texte philosophique, de la République romaine à sa réception tardive." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2025. http://www.theses.fr/2025SORUL001.
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Mon projet vise à étudier l'un des textes les plus problématiques de la tradition philosophique ancienne : le "Timée" de Cicéron, une traduction ou, plus exactement, une adaptation latine du "Timée" de Platon réalisée par l'Arpinate entre 45 et 44 av. J.-C. Je propose une analyse transdisciplinaire de l'ouvrage et de sa réception afin d'éclairer l'influence considérable de ce texte sur la tradition philosophique et culturelle latine et occidentale prise dans le temps long. Ma thèse se situe au croisement de différentes perspectives qui restent séparées dans les études anciennes et médiévales : la philologie, la paléographie, l'ecdotique, l'étude de la réception médiévale du "Timée" cicéronienMy project aims to study one of the most problematic texts in the ancient philosophical tradition: Cicero's "Timaeus", a translation or, more accurately, a Latin adaptation of Plato's "Timaeus" by Cicero between 45 and 44 BC. I propose a transdisciplinary analysis of the work and its reception in order to shed light on the considerable influence of this text on the Latin and Western philosophical and cultural tradition over time. My thesis is situated at the crossroads of different perspectives that remain separate in ancient and medieval studies: philology, palaeography, ecdotics, and the study of the medieval reception of Cicero's "Timaeus"
Books on the topic "Mediaeval reception of a philosophical text"
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Morton, Jonathan. The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816669.001.0001.
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The Roman de la rose is one of the most erudite, complex works of poetry to have been produced in medieval Europe, rich with allusions to French and Latin literature and to Scholastic philosophy. Its second and more prominent author Jean de Meun wrote his lengthy continuation of the Rose in the 1260s and 1270s at a time of institutional and intellectual contestation at the University of Paris, which saw fierce polemic around the status of philosophy, provoked by controversies over the reception of Aristotle. This book reads the Roman de la rose against the philosophical traditions to which it makes reference, considering the possibilities of poetry as a vehicle for thought that is provisional, uncertain, and inescapably bound up with affective experience. It offers a re-evaluation of the entire work as an intellectually coherent text that does not offer philosophical solutions as much as it makes its readers reflect on three interwoven themes: art, nature, and ethics. Chapters consider the philosophical importance of paradox in the Rose, the relationship between art and nature, animality and human appetite, the myth of the Golden Age, the ethics of money and profit, and the intertwined themes of idolatry and psychology as they inform the Rose’s ethics of desire. Throughout, there is a sustained attention to the reception of philosophy, especially Aristotle and Boethius, and poetry, especially Alain de Lille and Ovid. Ultimately, it shows that all of the Rose’s theoretical games use particularly poetic ways to grapple with the text’s central focus: the intractable problem of human desire.
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Galtsova, Elena D., ed. “Notes from Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky in the Culture of Europe and America. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0668-0.
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The collaborative monograph “‘Notes from Underground’ by F.M. Dostoevsky in the Culture of Europe and America” is devoted to poorly studied aspects of the Western perception of the novella. Russian, European and American authors analyze the translations of “Notes from Underground” into European languages, as well as its philosophical, literary, critical, theatrical and cinematic reception. The Appendix contains the previously unpublished text of the world’s first theatrical production of the story, “The Underground Spirit” (“L’Esprit souterrain”, 1912) by H.-R. Lenormand (in French and Russian), archival materials by M. Unamuno and J. Puig i Ferreter, prefaces to early translations, etc. The publication is accompanied by a bibliography of translations and reception of the novella in Europe and America.
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Seow, C. L. Job 1–21. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-008n.
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The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand. In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, including Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Western secular interpretations as expressed in theological, philosophical, and literary writings and in the visual and performing arts. Seow offers a primarily literary-theological interpretation of Job, a new translation, and detailed commentary.
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Burwick, Frederick, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Coleridge is a single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven articles present an in-depth assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into sections on Biography, Prose Works, Poetic Works, Sources, and Influences, and Reception. The Coleridge scholar today has ready access to a range of materials previously available only in library archives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bollingen edition of the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forty years in production, was completed in 2002. The Coleridge Notebooks (1957–2002) were also produced during this same period, five volumes of text with an additional five companion volumes of notes. The Clarendon Press of Oxford published the letters in six volumes (1956–71). To take full advantage of the convenient access and new insight provided by these volumes, the Oxford Handbook examines the entire range and complexity of Coleridge's career. It analyses the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and furnishes both students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridge's rich and varied accomplishments.
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Taxidou, Olga. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415569.001.0001.
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This book explores how encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in modernist experiments in performance. It analyses the experiments of Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D. and Bertolt Brecht in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating and designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page. The book proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy. Theatricality is read within the broader modernist experiments that reconfigure the relationships between the play-text and the stage, the body of the performer and the written word, while also re-conceptualising the main authors/creators of the performance event. Most such modernist experiments exhibit a strong attachment to notions of Greek tragedy. Sometimes these notions are based on readings of actual play-texts or archeological findings, but more often than not they rely on creative versions and encounters with Greek tragedy that help to revise ideas about classicism, its authenticity and cultural currency, and contribute towards an understanding of Greek tragedy that allows for theatrical experimentation that at once looks backwards, unearthing a radical potential in Greek tragedy itself (after Nietzsche and the Cambridge Ritualists), and forward to reception theory and to the late 20th and 21st century performances of Greek tragedy.
Book chapters on the topic "Mediaeval reception of a philosophical text"
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Hall, Edith. "Can the Odyssey Ever be Tragic? Historical Perspectives on the Theatrical Realization of Greek Epic." In Performance, Iconography, Reception, 499–525. Oxford University PressOxford, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199232215.003.0023.
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Abstract In one of the modern senses of the term, the most ‘tragic’ reading to which the Odyssey has ever been subjected was that of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. It formed a central thesis of their collaborative Dialektik der Aufklärung (The Dialectic of Enlightenment), first published in North America in the dark days of 1944. They saw the world as increasingly irrational, and sought to activate every resource made available through philosophical reasoning, but simultaneously identified the deadly role played by reason in the creation of humankind’s problems, at least in the form of means-end calculations and the specious objectivity of ideologically motivated science. When they mapped out the genealogy of the dark underbelly of Western rationality, it was the voyage of Odysseus which they selected for their allegorical case study, thus tracing the destructive potential of reason to the Odyssey, one of the earliest charter texts of Western identity and culture. They argued that this ‘Odyssean’rationality inevitably represses singularity and difference, symbolized by (amongst other things) the mistreatment of the Cyclops. Reason offers humans unhoped-for success in dominating nature through scientific and intellectual advancements, but inevitably leads to the domination of some men by others, and of most women by most men. The Frankfurt School, then, in identifying the Odyssey as the founding text of imperialism, capitalism, and fascism, certainly allocated it an incomparably tragic role within cultural history.
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Andreichuk, Kseniia R. "Trends in Swedish Reception of F. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground." In “Notes from Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky in the Culture of Europe and America, 388–404. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0668-0-388-404.
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Notes from Underground became a relevant text for Sweden only in the second half of the 20th century, primarily due to the appearance of translations and criticism, but also in connection with the construction of a ‘the people’s home’ (‘folkhemmet’), which is what a Swede thinks about when reading about Crystal Palace. However, it is not only social ideas that attract Swedish writers in Notes from Underground; the problems of the human isolation, the desire and inability to love another person more than yourself, as well as the whole vision of the world through the eyes of a paradoxalist are also relevant to them. The multi-layered text of Notes from Underground by F.M. Dostoevsky suggested that his literary reception would have several lines that go back to the problems lying on different levels of the story. The article considers several kinds of the reception of Notes from Underground in Swedish literature, namely the social and philosophical (Sven Delblank, Lars Ahlin), socio-religious (Birgitta Trotzig), existentialist (Lars Gyllensten) reception and reception of the artistic method (Lars Ahlin). It is worth mentioning that even when referring to Dostoevsky’s work in social debates, Swedish writers almost do not lose the philosophical context, do not narrow down universal human issues to momentary and purely social ones.
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Malagaris, George. "Reception of a polymath: Biruni in history." In Biruni, 130–47. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190124021.003.0006.
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Biruni enjoyed a high reputation for learning during his lifetime, particularly among the Ghaznavid literati. Shortly after his passing, Biruni’s fictionalized depiction in Nizami Arudi’s advice manual dramatized relations between him, Ibn Sina, and Mahmud of Ghazna. Biographical dictionaries in the eastern and western regions of the Islamic world represented Biruni differently. In philosophical and theological circles enamoured with Aristotelianism, the tendentious text of Biruni’s correspondence with Ibn Sina may have negatively affected Biruni’s intellectual reputation. Yet among astronomers, chronologists, geographers and others, Biruni’s reputation remained strong and his fame for exactitude, rigour, and scientific reasoning endured. Biruni received greater attention in the Indo-Persian context than the Latinate European one, in part due to the translation and patronage of specific genres of texts. The modern period experienced a revival in Biruni’s reputation and a renewed awareness of his achievements.
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Ivanova, Alexandra S. "K.D. Balmont as a Translator of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde." In O. Wilde and Russia: The Issues of Poetics and Reception, 161–83. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0711-3-161-183.
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If we compare “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” and Balmont’s translation, we can conclude that the translation is adequate to the original in the majority of cases. A poetic license is allowed in eleven lines, in general the ballad contains one hundred and nine. Basically, when the poet translated the work, he saved the most of the characteristics of the literary structure. There were the repetitions and color epithets. It was important to show the philosophical idea of Wilde’s ballad. The 25 lines of the poem contain a difficult philosophical context, but only three stanzas were translated by Balmont with significant semantic changes. The main thing of these changes is to emphasize a universal meaning of the original. Oscar Wilde recognized his personal tragedy and he shared it with other suffering people, all of the prisoners of the Reading Gaol. Balmont directly addressed the philosophical meaning of the text, giving it a parable sound. Finally, the article presents examples showing that Balmont’s method of the translation is multi-faceted and also surpasses the translation of V. Bryusov in a number of ways.
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Bobzien, Susanne. "Found in Translation." In Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility, 93–127. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866732.003.0005.
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This chapter researches the reception of the crucial sentence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, 1113b7–8 about that which is up to us (eph’hēmin), the philosophical significance of which is the topic of the previous chapter. This sentence has markedly shaped both scholarly and general opinion with regard to Aristotle’s theory of free will. In addition, it has taken on a curious life of its own. Part One of the chapter examines the text itself. Part Two explores its reception from antiquity to the present day, including present-day popular culture, later ancient, Byzantine, Arabic, Latin Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, and contemporary scholarship, and how it influenced the interpretation of Aristotle’s view on free will. There are some surprises on the way. (The paper also serves as an introduction to the reception of the Nicomachean Ethics from its beginnings to the present.)
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"Textual and Philosophical Issues in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle." In The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, 267–87. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004235083_014.
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Copeland, Rita. "Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Latin West." In Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, 156–202. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845122.003.0005.
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Chapter 4 turns from following the long and varied tradition of stylistic teaching and practice to dedicated theory: now the reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric and especially its analytic of the emotions from antiquity to the late thirteenth century. This chapter treats pathos and enthymeme in Aristotle’s Rhetoric. It contrasts other ancient philosophical traditions of the passions with Aristotle’s phenomenological treatment of emotion in the Rhetoric. It traces the post-classical reception of the Rhetoric through medieval Arabic commentators on the emotions, Moerbeke’s authoritative Latin translation, Giles of Rome’s important commentary on the Rhetoric, c.1272, and other scholastic commentators on the relevant sections of Aristotle’s text. It also contrasts other medieval philosophies of the passions with what readers would have found in Aristotle’s Rhetoric. In his first engagement with the Rhetoric, Giles did not grasp the political significance of Aristotle’s treatment of emotions because his thinking was still embedded in contemporary medieval theories of the passions.
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Janiak, Andrew. "The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman." In The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman, 157–85. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197757987.003.0005.
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Abstract This chapter analyzes the relation between the making of modern philosophy and Émilie Du Châtelet, the Enlightenment’s most dangerous woman. It mentions how patriarchal intellectual structures in modern European history take various forms, but women are regularly excluded from participating in intellectual institutions. The shaping and reshaping of Madame Du Châtelet’s work and reputation during the Enlightenment involves a pernicious form of patriarchy. The men who led the Enlightenment’s most important institutions and controlled access to its most important text (Diderot’s Encyclopedia) never allowed her to participate openly. The tale of Du Châtelet’s reception indicates that if a woman’s philosophical work could not be characterized as derivative, she was excised from the official history.
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Watroba, Karolina. "Economy." In Mann's Magic Mountain, 37–91. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871794.003.0002.
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Abstract This chapter covers themes of money, class, ideology, tourism, and marketing as they relate to The Magic Mountain and its reception history. Diverse reading records are discussed, including two novels from the 1930s: Sanatorium Arktur by Konstantin Fedin, one of the founding fathers of socialist realism in Soviet Russia, and Der Zauberlehrling by Erich Kästner, who received a commission from the tourist board of Davos for an upbeat novel set in the town to counter the morbid association with tuberculosis supposedly propagated by The Magic Mountain. Fedin’s propagandistic text and Kästner’s commission are placed alongside other traces of engagement with the novel, ranging from records of a Davos summer school in the 1920s, where a discussion between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer encapsulated the divergence of continental and analytical philosophical traditions, to the inception of World Economic Forum meetings, and Gore Verbinski’s recent Hollywood horror film, A Cure for Wellness.
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Hunter, Richard. "The Morning After." In Plato’s Symposium, 113–36. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195160796.003.0004.
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Abstract The Symposium has always been one of Plato’s most read, most influential, and most imitated works. No doubt this has much to do with the universal appeal of its subject matter — no Greek text is, for example, cited more often in Roland Barthes’s famous Lover’s Discourse — but it is also the rich variety of the work, together with its accessibility to readers with little philosophical training, which have given it a place of honor in the reception of Platonic ideas. Unsurprisingly, of course, some parts — Pausanias’s “Two Venuses,” the speeches of Aristophanes (cited as early as Aristotle) and Diotima, the entry of Alcibiades (depicted by, inter alios, Rubens, Testa, and Feuerbach),2 Alcibiades’ night with Socrates — have proved more memorable and worthy of allusion than others, but the work as a whole has shaped the way that the “golden age” of classical Athens has been imagined.
Conference papers on the topic "Mediaeval reception of a philosophical text"
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Vladić Jovanov, Milena. "DIALOGUE IN THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT: THE PRESENCE/ABSENCE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE THEMES OF LOVE AND IDENTITY." In Proceeding of the Thirteenth International Conference at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, 66–80. Alfa BK University Belgrade, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46793/lld24.066vj.
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In this paper, a delineation of two roles of communication – the interpretative and the textual – is presented in the poetic work of T.S. Eliot, from early poetry (1909 – 1917) to The Waste Land. At the first level of interpretative communication, a relational connection with the thematic level is formed, reflecting themes of self- awareness of the “I” and the understanding of reality through the concepts of love, where the presence/absence of communication determines the identity of the “I” and the reality of the city, both intensified to an equivalent degree. To resolve the dilemma of whether the “I” supersedes reality or vice versa, textual communication proves to be necessary due to the reader’s participation in creating an interpretation through their reception at the semantic level and forming a “new” work at the semiotic level. Here, the reader connects the writer’s hints with their own knowledge, correlating different elements by simultaneously linking text and context across various dimensions. The aesthetics of Romanticism in miniature and the aesthetics of detail intertwine to create an aesthetics of the inverted image. Depending on how this synthesis is achieved, the presence/absence of communication constructs the self-identity and the reality of the city. The reader concurrently engages with artistic procedures of self-referentiality, metatextuality, models of intertextuality, and deconstructionist complex systems, all of which point to the experience of writing that the author offers as the work’s semantics. The experience of writing the work, which provides content for further interpretative insights, is reflected in the very structure. This paper illustrates the intertwining and transformation of theoretical, philosophical, and interpretative levels, which collectively, through the engagement of communication, create a new literary work. The concept of communication is presented as a substructure that governs the interpretation of the primary structures of the identity of the “I” and reality, through themes of love and complex interpersonal relationships that reflect the identity of the “I” and, consequently, the identity of reality and the society in which the “I” resides.