{"product_id":"reading-7716-ayy-ibn-yaq-7827-257-n-a-cross-cultural-history-of-autodidacticism-9780801897399","title":"Reading \u0026#7716;ayy Ibn-Yaq\u0026#7827;\u0026#257;n: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Avner Ben-Zaken\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommonly translated as \"The Self-Taught Philosopher\" or \"The Improvement of Human Reason,\" Ibn-Tufayl's story \u003ci\u003eHayy Ibn-Yaqzān\u003c\/i\u003e inspired debates about autodidacticism in a range of historical fields from classical Islamic philosophy through Renaissance humanism and the European Enlightenment. Avner Ben-Zaken's account of how the text traveled demonstrates the intricate ways in which autodidacticism was contested in and adapted to diverse cultural settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn tracing the circulation of the \u003ci\u003eHayy Ibn-Yaqzān\u003c\/i\u003e, Ben-Zaken highlights its key place in four far-removed historical moments. He explains how autodidacticism intertwined with struggles over mysticism in twelfth-century Marrakesh, controversies about pedagogy in fourteenth-century Barcelona, quarrels concerning astrology in Renaissance Florence, and debates pertaining to experimentalism in seventeenth-century Oxford. In each site and period, Ben-Zaken recaptures the cultural context that stirred scholars to relate to \u003ci\u003eayy Ibn-Yaqān\u003c\/i\u003e and demonstrates how the text moved among cultures, leaving in its wake translations, interpretations, and controversies as various as the societies themselves. Pleas for autodidacticism, Ben-Zaken shows, not only echoed within close philosophical discussions; they surfaced in struggles for control between individuals and establishments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented as self-contained histories, these four moments together form a historical collage of autodidacticism across cultures from the late Medieval era to early modern times. The first book-length intellectual history of autodidacticism, this novel, thought-provoking work will interest a wide range of historians, including scholars of the history of science, philosophy, literature, Europe, and the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48224845889687,"sku":"9780801897399","price":7110.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801897399.webp?v=1788764589","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reading-7716-ayy-ibn-yaq-7827-257-n-a-cross-cultural-history-of-autodidacticism-9780801897399","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}