A Contemporary Perspective on Arabic Medieval Philosophy,
Lecture (in English) by ALI BENMAKHLOUF

Respondent:  DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN

Medieval and Renaissance Center Event,  co-sponsored by the Department of French and the Department of Comparative Literature

ALI BENMAKHLOUF is Professor of Philosophy at l’Université Paris-Est Créteil and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A specialist of medieval Islamic philosophy, political theory, and Frege, he is the editor of the Arabic edition of the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. His recent publications include L’identité, une fable philosophique; Selon la raison; andPourquoi lire les philosophes arabes?

DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers;  The Fifth Hammer:  Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World; and The Enemy of All:  Piracy and the Law of Nations.

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