Ibn Bāǧǧa, Commentary on Aristotle's ›On Generation and Corruption‹

Critical Edition and Translation with an Introduction and Glossaries

Corrado la Martire

• Editore: De Gruyter
• Anno: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783110706628
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Philosophy
• Categoria: Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Ibn B???a's commentary on Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption ( Kit?b al-Kawn wa-l-fas?d, Latin De generatione et corruptione ) is one of the first commentaries to elaborate on the essential aspect of Aristotle's text, that is, the analysis of change (????????, ta?ayyur ). The commentary's extant parts comprise a consecutive exposition of the contents of Aristotle's work. However, the commentary may be read more as an introduction or a guide to the topic of generation than as a substitution for the original, as the paraphrases by Averroes seem to have become in the later tradition. The present study provides a new critical edition of the Arabic text and, for the first time, an English translation and a study of the structure of the commentary on the basis of the only two known manuscripts.

Indice dei contenuti

• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Preface
• I. Manuscripts
• II. Content of the Commentary
• III. Ibn Bāğğa’s Kitāb al-Kawn wa-l-fasād. Critical Edition
• IV. Appendix
• V. Tables
• VI. Glossary
• VII. Bibliography
• Index of names
• Index of works
• Index of subjects