18.3392, Books: Philosophy of Language/Ling&Literature: Weiner

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Subject: 18.3392, Books: Philosophy of Language/Ling&Literature: Weiner

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Date: 13-Nov-2007
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Eriugenas negative Ontologie: Weiner

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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:20:44
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Eriugenas negative Ontologie: Weiner
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Title: Eriugenas negative Ontologie 
Series Title: Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie 46  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BSP%2046 

Author: Sebastian Florian Weiner

Hardback: ISBN: 9060323777 9789060323779 Pages: 229 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9060323777 9789060323779 Pages: 229 Price: U.S. $ 142.00

Abstract:

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in the work
Periphyseon of the early medieval philosopher John Scot Eriugena.
Previous research has classified the book either as a piece of Neoplatonic
philosophy or as part of the Latin dialectic tradition, which has led to
one-sided interpretations. The present publication focuses instead on the
philosophical claims defended in the Periphyseon itself, examines
its originality and discusses the soundness of its argumentation. As a
result, a hitherto unnoticed basic thought of the work has been uncovered,
namely the concept of a negative ontology, according to which all substance
is completely incomprehensible. This notion constitutes the greatest
innovation of Eriugena's thought. In keeping with his negative ontology,
Eriugena downgrades the fourfold division of nature that he had presented
at the beginning of his work. A critical survey of the current readings of
Eriugena as a Neoplatonist and idealist completes this book.

In jüngerer Zeit rückt das Werk Periphyseon des
frühmittelalterlichen Denkers Johannes Scottus Eriugena zunehmend in den
Fokus der philosophischen Forschung. Die bisherigen Untersuchungen ordnen
das Werk entweder der neuplatonischen Denkrichtung oder der lateinischen
Dialektiktradition zu, und richten dementsprechend ihre Interpretation
daran aus. Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung hingegen betrachtet vorrangig
die Darstellung und Argumentation im Periphyseon selbst, prüft
detailliert den Innovationsgehalt und die Überzeugungskraft der Aussagen.
Als Ergebnis zeigt sich ein bislang ungesehener Grundgedanke des Werks, der
einer negativen Ontologie. Diese Ontologie verneint jegliche Bestimmbarkeit
aller Substanz. Sie macht die eigentliche Innovation in Eriugenas Denken
aus. Im Hinblick auf diese löst er die zu Anfang des Werks präsentierte
Vierteilung der Gesamtnatur wieder auf. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung
mit der bisherigen Einordnung Eriugenas als Neuplatoniker und Idealist
rundet das Buch ab.

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Philosophy of Language

Written In: German, Standard  (deu)

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