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• Avicenna on subjectivity : a philosophical study 

  Kaukua, Jari (University of Jyväskylä, 2007)

  Ab? cAl? Ibn S?n? (980–1037 jaa., lat. Avicenna) oli keskiajan arabifilosofeista kenties tärkein. Hänen ajattelunsa yhdisti omaperäisellä tavalla uusplatonistisen ja aristoteelisen perinteen aineksia. Ibn S?n?n vaikutus ...

• Castron kastraatio : Pedro Juan Gutiérrezin proosa castrokommunistisen utopian romuttajana 

  Arkko, Samuli (University of Jyväskylä, 2016)

  This dissertation explores how Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castrocommunist utopia. The study has three goals: (1) to explain how Castro-communism has formed, altered and impacted on Cuban literature; ...

• Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy – a Contradiction in Terms? 

  Kaukua, Jari (Scientific Studies Association (ILEM), 2020)

  This paper engages critically with Dimitri Gutas’ recent characterization of post-classical Islamic philosophy and theology as a form of paraphilosophy or intellectual activity that merely simulates philosophy. I argue ...

• The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini : Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence 

  Merisalo, Outi (Firenze University Press, 2020)

  During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined ...

• Commenting on Historical Writings in Medieval Latin Europe : A Reconnaissance 

  Kujawinski, Jakub (Polska Akademia Nauk, 2015)

  Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars’ attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of ...