Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left

by Ernst Bloch

Book Overview

Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory elements of modern thought to medieval Islamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175353
• ISBN13: 9780231175357
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"