Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

1. Introduction
Guido Giglioni

2. Averroes against Avicenna on Human Spontaneous Generation: The Starting-Point of a Lasting Debate
Amos Bertolacci

3. Revisiting the 1552–1550 and 1562 Aristotle-Averroes Edition
Charles Burnett

4. Humanism and the Assessment of Averroes in the Renaissance
Craig Martin

5. Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian Mind, and the Monster of Averroes
Michael J. B. Allen

6. The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences
Nicholas Holland

7. Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition: The Case of Agostino Nifo
Leen Spruit

8. Averroistic Themes in Girolamo Cardano’s De Immortalitate Animorum

José Manuel García Valverde

9. Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of Matter: Averroes’s Notion of the Imagination and Its Renaissance Interpreters
Guido Giglioni

10. The Cambridge Platonists and Averroes
Sarah Hutton

11. Reconsidering the Case of Elijah Delmedigo’s Averroism and Its Impact on Spinoza
Carlos Fraenkel

12. Averroes and Arabic Philosophy in the Modern Historia Philosophica: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Gregorio Piaia

13. Immanuel Kant, Universal Understanding, and the Meaning of Averroism in the German Enlightenment
Marco Sgarbi

14. Ernest Renan and Averroism: The Story of a Misinterpretation
John Marenbon

15. Leo Strauss and the Alethiometer
James E. Montgomery

16. Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Problem, the Debate, and Its Philosophical Implications
Anna Akasoy

Keywords: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Political Theory