Dimitri Gutas

In this essay, I concentrate my focus upon how metaphors unveil different aspects of Being with the very help of deconstruction, hermeneutics and phenomenology and how we can read Avicenna's use of metaphor in the Recital of the Bird. In order to do this, I will first touch on Avicenna's cosmological view, and then summarize the recital. Finally, I shall go through the analysis of the recital by using the twist, as deconstruction and hermeneutics did, in the concept of metaphor.

There is an incipient tendency in critical edition of Aristotle’s
Work, it consists of considering a multilingual edition of
his Works which includes, when available, Greek, Syriac,
Arabic, Hebrew and Latin versions. Our interest here is to
appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of this type of
work through the examination of concrete examples taken
from the Metaphysics and the Nicomachean Ethics.