Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas

by Jean Grondin

Book Overview

Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. He follows the theological turn in the metaphysical thought of Avicenna, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, and he revisits Descartes and the cogito; Spinoza and Leibniz's rationalist approaches;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231148445
• ISBN13: 9780231148443
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher