Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary

by Gyula Klima (Editor )

This collection of readings with extensive editorial commentary brings together key texts of the most influential philosophers of the medieval era to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of philosophy.

Genres: Philosophy, Medieval, History, Theology

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York, Director of the Research Center for the History of Ideas of the Institute of Hungarian Research, Budapest, Hungary, and a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the Founding Director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics and Editor of its Proceedings, as well as the Founding Director of the Society for the European History of Ideas and Editor of its Proceedings. He is also an editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the Editor-in-Chief of a book series at Springer, Historical-Analytical Studies in Mind, Nature and Action, and at Fordham, Medieval Philosophy, Texts and Studies. Before taking up his position at Fordham, he had taught philosophy in the US at Yale and Notre Dame, prior to which he had done research in Europe at the universities of Budapest, Helsinki, St. Andrews, and Copenhagen.