The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international
character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the
United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland,
Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a
preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has
been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The
volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian
studies comprise today: such activity ranges from the primarily
textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian
themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow
textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of
Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is
primarily represented in this Handbook: textual exegesis and
criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one
witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking
primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu
and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation
with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. No
one of these enterprises exhausts the field. On the contrary, one
of the most welcome and enlivening features of the contemporary
Aristotelian scene is precisely the cross-fertilization these
mutually beneficial and complementary activities offer one another.
The volume, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and
works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian
philosophy and intellectual enquiry: ethics, metaphysics, politics,
logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical
and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also,
and distinctively, looks both backwards and forwards: two chapters
recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved
formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three
chapters chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy, in
Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West.
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