Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays

Description

The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus but is one of the least studied Aristotelian works both by ancient and modern interpreters. Yet it is a treatise where we can see, with some clarity and detail, Aristotle's methodology at work. This volume contains a new critical edition of the Greek text, an English translation, and nine in-depth interpretative essays. A general introduction that focuses on the explanatory strategies adopted by Aristotle in the De incessu animalium plus a historical essay on the reception of this work in antiquity and beyond open the volume. No other work of this kind has been published in any modern language.

ANDREA FALCON is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Departments at Concordia University, Montreal, and Universita degli Studi di Milano Statale. He is the author of several books on Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, including Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge, 2005), Aristotelianism in the First Century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge, 2011) and, coedited with David Lefebvre, Aristotle's Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2017). STASINOS STAVRIANEAS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras. He specializes in Aristotle's natural philosophy, biology and metaphysics and is the author of a Modern Greek translation and commentary of Aristotle's Parts of Animals (2019) and is currently preparing a similar edition of Aristotle's Generation of Animals.