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Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought
Contents
1. The orientation of this study
Introduction
Ibn 'Arabi's picture of reality
The question about questions: knowledge and its
essential direction
Metaphysics, historically positioned discourses and
human aspiration
Degrees of knowledge: the principle of immanencing
Ibn 'Arabi and modern thought: a reconfigured topography
2. Ibn 'Arabi: philosophy and reason
Ibn 'Arabi, Averroes and philosophy as demonstrative science
Philosophy, reason and metaphysics
Reason and essential contestability
Reason and commitment
Scientific philosophy
Philosophy of the subject
Wahdat al-wujud, wisdom and reason
3. Ibn 'Arabi and the era
The metaphysics of the era: creation and change
Social science and the emergence of the modern era
The re-orientation of the self: science, technology
and industrialization
Modernity, postmodernity and relativism
4. Ibn 'Arabi and the self
The metaphysics of self-knowledge
Modern psychology and the self
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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