B.’s investigation of Book E is conducted as part of a project (directed by D. Lefebvre and M. Rashed) aiming to provide new French translations and commentaries for each of the fourteen books of the Metaphysics. It includes a translation, a commentary, a clear and informative critical introduction, an annotated bibliography and two glossaries (a Greek– French and a French–Greek one). His work successfully contributes to fill in a highly lamentable lacuna in the panorama of scholarly production on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: the one represented by the lack of a focused treatment of Book E, one which, besides stressing its specific theoretical import in the overall structure of the Metaphysics, provides the most appropriate tools for a critical reading and an appreciation of the book as a single, conceptually autonomous writing
Titolo: | ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS REVISITED. (E.) Berti (trans.) Aristote: Métaphysique, Livre Epsilon. Pp. 239. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2015. Paper, €15. ISBN: 978-2-7116-2617-5. | |
Autore/i: | IRRERA, ELENA | |
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Anno: | 2016 | |
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Abstract: | B.’s investigation of Book E is conducted as part of a project (directed by D. Lefebvre and M. Rashed) aiming to provide new French translations and commentaries for each of the fourteen books of the Metaphysics. It includes a translation, a commentary, a clear and informative critical introduction, an annotated bibliography and two glossaries (a Greek– French and a French–Greek one). His work successfully contributes to fill in a highly lamentable lacuna in the panorama of scholarly production on Aristotle’s Metaphysics: the one represented by the lack of a focused treatment of Book E, one which, besides stressing its specific theoretical import in the overall structure of the Metaphysics, provides the most appropriate tools for a critical reading and an appreciation of the book as a single, conceptually autonomous writing | |
Data stato definitivo: | 14-giu-2017 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.03 Recensione in rivista |