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Averroes the Terrible

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A prominent figure in the golden age of Arab civilization, Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (1126–1198), better known by his Latinized name, Averroes, introduced the West to the late antique reception of Aristotle's ideas through his commentaries on his works. A mediator between ancient and Christian philosophy, Averroes was also a bogeyman for the scholastics: his interpretation of Aristotle's concept of the individual mind was deemed too daring by Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and their followers. French philosopher Jean-Baptiste Brenet (b. 1972) attempts to understand the reasons for the horror Averroes inspired in his Western readers. Averroes emerges as one of the first critics of Christian metaphysics, undermining its foundations many centuries before it came under fire from Nietzscheanism and psychoanalysis. Drawing on Freud, Brené sees in Averroism the repressed homeland of Western thought, the “inner abroad” returning to it in a terrible guise, or a mirror showing it its own reverse side.
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