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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782988803321

Titolo

Maimonides and his heritage [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, James Allen Grady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7914-7725-8

1-4416-0363-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Jewish philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

Dobbs-WeinsteinIdit <1950->

GoodmanLenn Evan <1944->

GradyJames Allen

Disciplina

296.1/81

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Moses Maimonides and the world of Islam / David J. Wasserstein -- Maimonides as biblical exegete / Arthur Hyman -- Philosophical themes in Maimonides--Sefer ahavah / Menachem Kellner -- Maimonides on joy / Moshe Sokol -- Maimonides' psychology / Alfred Ivry -- Bahya and Maimonides on the worth of medicine / Lenn E. Goodman -- The ambiguity of the imagination and the ambivalence of language in Maimonides and Spinoza / Idit Dobbs-Weinstein -- The philosophical mysticism of Maimonides and Maimon / Gideon Freudenthal -- Persecution and the art of representation: Schocken's Maimonides: anthologies of the 1930's / Martina Urban  -- Maimonides in the crucible of Zionism: reflections on Yeshayahu: Leibowitz's negative theology / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- Can we be Maimonideans today? / David Novak.