Reason Unbound

Acknowledgments Introduction: Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modern Rationalism 1. Beyond Orientalism and Academic Rationalism: A Critique of the Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy 1.1. Philosophy as Practice of Spiritual Exercises 1.2. Standard Readings of Islamic Philosophy 2. To the Things Themselves: Corbin and Heidegger on Phenomenological Access 2.1. Phenomenology According to Henry Corbin 2.2. Heidegger's Phenomenology 2.3. Two Contemporary Approaches to Heidegger's Phenomenology 2.4. Back to Corbin 3. From the Things Themselves to Prophecy: Philosophical Cultivation in Islamic Peripateticism 3.1. The Ethical Foundations of Islamic Philosophy 3.2. Alfarabi's Appropriation of Islamic Ethics 3.3. Alfarabi's Philosophical Appropriation of Islamic Prophetology 3.4. The Reception of the Notion of Active Intellect in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition 3.5. Alfarabi on Religion and Politics 3.6. Avicenna on Philosophical Felicity 3.7. Avicenna on Intellectual Prophecy 4. Disciplining the Imagination: Intellect, Imagination, and Prophecy 4.1. Prophetic Imagination 4.2. The Beautiful and the Sublime 4.3. Before and After Kant 4.4. Avicenna on the Poetic Cultivation of Imagination 5. The Theologian's Dream: Imagination and Intellectual Heresy 5.1. Ghazali on Dreams 5.2. Ghazali and Avicenna on the Interpretation of Prophetic Symbols 5.3. Ghazali's Charge of Heresy Against Islamic Peripatetics and Averroes' Reply 6. On Human Finitude, Conscience, and Exemplarity: A Comparison between Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology 6.1. Being-Toward-Beyond-Death: On the Immortality of the Soul in Islamic Peripateticism 6.2. Conscience and the Active Intellect 6.3. Paradigms of Emulation: Divine Exemplars and Existential Heroes Conclusion: Importance of Islamic Peripateticism for Modern Philosophy in the West and Its Impact on Later Islamic Philosophy 1. Islamic Peripateticism and the Predicament of Modern Western Philosophy 2. Peripateticism in Later Islamic Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index