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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792176003321

Autore

Gottlieb Michah

Titolo

Faith, reason and politics [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the history of Jewish thought / / Michah Gottlieb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2013

ISBN

1-61811-084-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Reference library of Jewish intellectual history

Disciplina

296

Soggetti

Faith and reason - Judaism

Jewish philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides -- II. Spinoza's Method(s) of Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered -- III. Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism -- IV. Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy -- V. Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key Anti-Maimonideanism in Nineteenth-Century Orthodoxy -- VI. Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubiläumsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- VII. Leo Strauss on Lessing's Spinozism -- VIII. Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English -- IX. Sincere Irony: A Review of William Egginton's In Defense of Religious Moderation -- Permissions -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson



Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the problem of faith versus reason and in the relationship between religion and politics.