{"product_id":"the-philosopher-responds-an-intellectual-correspondence-from-the-tenth-century-9781479806355","title":"The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuestions and answers from two great philosophers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher Responds \u003c\/i\u003eis the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth\/tenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe correspondence between al-Tawḥīdī and Miskawayh holds a mirror to many of the debates of the time and reflects the spirit of rationalistic inquiry that animated their era. It also provides insight into the intellectual outlooks of two thinkers who were divided as much by their distinctive temperaments as by the very different trajectories of their professional careers. Alternately whimsical and tragic, trivial and profound, al-Tawḥīdī's questions provoke an interaction as interesting in its spiritedness as in its content. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn English-only edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī \u003c\/b\u003e(d. 414\/1023) was a prominent litterateur and philosopher in Baghdad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbū ʿAlī Miskawayh (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbū ʿAlī Miskawayh\u003c\/b\u003e (ca. 320-421\/932-1030) was a philosopher and historian born in Rayy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Rée (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Rée \u003c\/b\u003eis a freelance philosopher and historian living in Oxford and London. His books include \u003ci\u003eProletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales, I See a Voice, Witcraft, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Schoolmaster's War.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophia Vasalou (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSophia Vasalou\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham. Her books include \u003ci\u003eMoral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWonder: A Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIbn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames E. Montgomery (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJames E. Montgomery\u003c\/b\u003e is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are \u003ci\u003eFate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice\u003c\/i\u003e, with Michael Fishbein. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50682117554450,"sku":"9781479806355","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62338ad7-3420-4071-9d71-394b3e921ca1.jpg?v=1733964160","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-philosopher-responds-an-intellectual-correspondence-from-the-tenth-century-9781479806355","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}