What Does It Mean to Think? An Arab-Latin Answer (Chto Znachit Myslit)

Jean-Baptiste Brenet (b. 1972) is a French philosopher, professor at the Sorbonne, and specialist in the works of Averroes, Arabic Aristotelianism of the 9th–12th centuries, and its interaction with European scholasticism. In this book—his first work translated into Russian—he proposes, in a sense, to begin thinking from scratch, that is, to look at thinking itself with the eyes of a novice and pioneer. Fifteen chapters serve as the first reference points on a map of the world of thought, which the reader will rediscover in light of the legacy of Arabic-Latin culture—the remarkable phenomenon of the reception of ancient philosophy in the Arab world, from where Aristotle's works, translated from Greek into Arabic, commented on, and retranslated from Arabic into Latin, returned to Western civilization.