Dr. Yoav Meyrav

My personal research project in the context of HEPMASITE’s wider aim is divided into two parts. The first is a systematic exploration of all extant Hebrew codices containing at least one of Averroes’s epitomes of Aristotle’s works in order to construct a narrative of their translation, consolidation, revision, and study as manifested on the page. The second is an attempt to reconceptualise the history of medieval Hebrew philosophy through its invisible/marginal philosophical agents using a post-protagonist manuscript-first approach, which will result in the composition of a “hidden history.” In the background, I am attempting to develop analytical categories for understanding philosophical manuscripts as philosophical things, and philosophy as part of the world. In this way, room is made for the discussion of material causality and for widening the scope of what should be considered consequential in philosophical activity.