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UNINA9910462123503321 |
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Rudavsky Tamar <1951-> |
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Time matters [[electronic resource] ] : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / / T.M. Rudavsky |
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Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Jewish philosophy |
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Creation - History of doctrines |
Jewish cosmology |
Jewish philosophy |
Philosophy, Medieval |
Time |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index. |
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""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustration""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem""; ""Introduction""; ""Biblical Conceptions of Time""; ""Rabbinical Models of Time and Creation""; ""Time, Order, and Creation in the Greek Philosophical Tradition""; ""Ancient Greek Astronomy and Cosmology""; ""Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Creation, and Cosmology""; ""Introduction""; ""Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed"" |
""Creation Models in Maimonides""""Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides""; ""Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas""; ""Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno""; ""Introduction""; ""Traversing the Infinite: Zeno, Aristotle, and John Philoponus""; ""Jewish Neoplatonic Considerations of Infinite Divisibility""; ""Meeting the Kalam Challenge: Kalam Atomism Described""; ""Rejection of Kalam Atomism: Saadia Gaon, Halevi, Ibn Daud, and Maimonides""; ""Gersonides on the Continuum"" |
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""Crescas on Infinity, Space, and the Vacuum""""Conclusion""; ""Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience""; ""Introduction""; ""The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox""; ""Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom""; ""Maimonides' Compatibilism""; ""Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud""; ""Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides""; ""Indeterminism and Prophecy""; ""The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prelude to Modernity""; ""Introduction""; ""Newton and His Philosophical Precursors"" |
""Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism""""Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared""; ""Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza""; ""The Role Played by Imagination""; ""Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover"" |
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UNINA9910797271603321 |
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Autore |
Dolis John |
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Transnational Na(rra)tion [[electronic resource] ] : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Transnationalism in literature |
American literature - History and criticism - 19th century |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
American Literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pre-lude""; ""Overture""; ""First |
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Movement""; ""Second Movement""; ""Third Movement""; ""Fourth Movement""; ""Finale""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
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This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of ""American"" identity involves the incorporation of a ""foreign body"" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an ""other"" which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure. ""American"" identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters ar |
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