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For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an affordable format, these works serve as an introduction to the life and writings of the Catalan (properly, Majorcan) philosopher, mystic, and theologian who lived from 1232 to 1316. Founder of a school of Arabic and other languages, Llull was also a poet and novelist and one of the creators of literary Catalan.
This volume contains three prefaces on Llull's life, thought, and reputation. Of Llull's works, it offers Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men, his seminal Christian apology; the Ars brevis, a summary of his philosophical system; The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, a celebration of mystical love in the courtly tradition; and his wittily scathing Book of the Beasts.
A new collection of writings extracted from the two-volume compilation of the Catalan philosopher, mystic, and martyr, who lived from 1232 to 1316.
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Min H Mebarkia
reviewed Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader on February 20, 2012 Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
I heard about Ramon Llull, a 13th c. Catalan philosopher, from a passing mention in Vanished Kingdoms. The breadth of his interests are well represented in this anthology of four works. The first is The Book of the Gentile. An atheist meets three wise men: a Jew, a Christian, and a Saracen. Each tries to convince him of his religion's superiority to the other two. Each gives compelling and accurate arguments. The book is surprisingly broadminded and the ambiguous ending feels quite modern. The second is The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, a collection of 366 verses inspired by Sufism, but with a Christian theme. The third is The Book of the Beasts, which is a political fable about a kingdom of animals with a Machiavellian subtext. The final piece is the Ars Brevis in which Llull outlines his combinatoric method of using logic to build a philosophy. It suggests that Llull would have been a brilliant mathematician if he had lived in a later age (I found a website that produced an elaborate program using Llull's Art -- probably a better way of understanding it than this text, which is quite abstract).
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