新书 | Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

博睿社“古典接受史指南”(Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception)丛书是一套值得关注的出版物,它呼应了接受史这一古典研究前沿的进展,努力统合既有的相关学术成果,丛书的出版频率也佐证了接受史话题的高产——从2014年出版首卷开始,七八年间已经成书二十余卷,颇有蔚然大观的气象。2021年11月底出版的 Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 是本套丛书中最近问世的一册,由 Irene CaiazzoConstantinos MacrisAurélien Robert 三位法国哲学史家联合主编。

对毕达哥拉斯主义做哲学史研究,是一项比较繁难的任务。这主要是由于早期毕达哥拉斯主义材料多见于古代的间接引述之中,此外历史上还存在着大量伪托毕达哥拉斯或毕达哥拉斯学派的文本和表述,导致形成了层叠交错的复杂文献状况。经 Walter Burkert 和 Leonid Zhmud[Леонид Яковлевич Жмудь]等人的地标性工作,早期毕达哥拉斯主义的不同史料层次已得到区分,关于毕达哥拉斯在古代的接受史,也已有若干力作问世,但中世纪以来的毕达哥拉斯主义仍留有大片研究空白——用文集编者的话说,“在这场传统编史学的新近复兴之中,中世纪几乎未曾占有一席之地”(p. 1)。本卷文集可以填补这一空缺。全书前三部分讨论了毕达哥拉斯学派的“数”理论、伦理学、形而上学及神学在中世纪的接受情况,第四部分论述了文艺复兴时期的毕达哥拉斯主义,这一部分写得较为概括。文集作者的工作对象不仅包括了拉丁西方的史料,还涉及犹太、阿拉伯、波斯方面的材料,这一广阔的视野值得国内学界注。对于科学史研究来说,这部文集也许在两个方面具有比较突出的意义:首先,是一些“中间性”的人物和学说可以得到专题处理,如杰拉什的尼各马可(Nicomachus of Gerasa)等重要的毕达哥拉斯主义哲学家、数学;其次,自柯瓦雷以来,学者们不断追索讨论近代科学革命的“毕达哥拉斯主义”特性,但那一时代有关毕达哥拉斯主义的各种思想却呈现出混杂斑驳的面貌,令人望而生畏,本书最后一部分的两篇概览性文章,可以帮助国内的科学史研究者初步理解这一历史语境的大略。

需要注意的是,如题目所表明的那样,本卷只涵盖了中世纪和文艺复兴时期的有关主题,至于古典时代、希腊化时代与古代晚期的毕达哥拉斯主义,将来会另成一卷 Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism 专门讨论。在该书问世前,2021年春季出版的 Pythagoras redivivus: Studies on the Texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans 可以用来概貌式地了解希腊化与帝国时代毕达哥拉斯主义的新近研究进展(成果主要来自法国让·佩潘中心的“伪毕达哥拉斯文献”Pseudopythagorica研究计划)。


原图书简介:

A wide range of specialists provide a comprehensive overview of the reception of Pythagorean ideas in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, shedding new light especially on the understudied ‘Medieval Pythagoras’ of the Latin West. They also explore the survival of Pythagoreanism in the Arabic, Jewish, and Persian cultures, thus adopting a multicultural perspective. Their common concern is to detect the sources of this reception, and to follow their circulation in diverse linguistic areas. The reader can thus have a panoramic view of the major themes belonging to the Pythagorean heritage – number philosophy and the sciences of the quadrivium; ethics and way of life; theology, metaphysics and the soul – until the Early Modern times.

编者简介:

Irene Caiazzo, Ph.D. (1999), École pratique des hautes études (Paris), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She specializes in the history of medieval philosophy and science, and is editor-in-chief of the annual journal Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age. Her major publications include Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: Les Glosae Colonienses super Macrobium (Paris, 2002) and Thierry of Chartres: The Commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius (Toronto, 2015).

Constantinos Macris, Ph.D. (2004), École pratique des hautes études (Paris), is Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) specialising in ancient Greek philosophy and religion, with a focus on Pythagoreanism and its Neoplatonic reception. He is the author of a book-length entry on Pythagoras, the Pythagoreans, and their Nachleben (Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. VII, Paris 2018), and editor of Pythagoras redivivus. Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Baden Baden, 2021).

Aurélien Robert, Ph.D. (2005), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His works focus on the reception of Ancient Greek philosophy in the Middle Ages, and more particularly atomism, philosophical medicine and Aristotelian metaphysics, physics and ethics. He is the author of Epicure aux enfers. Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge (Paris, 2021) and Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Leiden-Boston, 2009).

Contributors are: Constantinos Macris, Cecilia Panti, Andrew Hicks, Sonja Brentjes, Gad Freudenthal, Tzvi Langermann, Anna Izdebska, Aurélien Robert, Daniel De Smet, Carmela Baffioni, Irene Caiazzo, Marta Borgo, Iacopo Costa, David Albertson, Denis Robichaud, Jean-Pierre Brach.

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