Name: Anton Wilhelm Amo'S Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
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Author: Justin E. H. Smith
ISBN: 9780197668016

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Anton Wilhelm Amo'S Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Justin E. H. Smith

Stephen Menn

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

Justin E. H. Smith

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.5 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9780197668016

Synopsis "Anton Wilhelm Amo'S Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body "

Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and study and teach in European universities. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a small boy, he was sent from his home in present-day Ghana to Amsterdam. From there he was sent to Germany as a court attendant of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, and was subsequently baptized in 1708. He matriculated at the University of Halle in 1727, where he defended a law thesis. He then studied and taught at the University of Wittenberg, before returning to Halle to teach, and later also teaching in Jena. He returned to West Africa permanently in 1747. Though much attention on and study of Amo has previously focused on his symbolic importance as a historical figure--the first African philosopher in modern Europe--Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith argue for a serious engagement with Amo's work as a philosopher. In an extensive introduction, they contextualize his biography and writing within the surrounding intellectual and historical environment, and discuss and analyze his arguments in conversation with other philosophers of the time. This volume contains his two Wittenberg philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both first published in 1734. The editors present the original Latin texts with side-by-side English translations and detailed explanatory annotations. In centering Amo's philosophical thought and making it accessible to more students and scholars, Mennand Smith establish the originality and significance of Amo's rigorous contributions to the mind-body debate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Justin E. H. Smith (Reno, United States, 1972) holds a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University. From 2003 to 2013, he served as a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal, and he is currently a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université de Paris. He is also a member of the sphere research laboratory at the same university. In 2019 and 2020, he participated in the international fellowship program of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and since 2020 he has been writing critical essays and philosophy in his digital newsletter Justin E. H. Smith’s Hinternet.
He has written numerous articles in specialized journals and frequently contributes to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Art in America, among others. He has compiled, among others, the volumes The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (2006) and Embodiment. A History (2017). Additionally, he is the author of the books Divine Machines. Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011); Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference. Race in Early Modern Philosophy (2015), and The Philosopher. A History in Six Types (2016).

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