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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817468703321

Titolo

Jewish philosophy : perspectives and retrospectives / / edited by Raphael Jospe and Dov Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2012

ISBN

1-61811-182-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Emunot, Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah

Altri autori (Persone)

JospeRaphael

SchwartzDov

Disciplina

181.06

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Israeli

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction / Jospe, Raphael / Schwartz, Dov -- Part I -- Introduction / Mittleman, Alan -- Coming After: American Jewish Thought in Light of German Judaism / Batnitzky, Leora -- Doing Jewish Philosophy in America / Goodman, Lenn E. -- Thinking Through Scripture and Liturgy after the Shoah / Kepnes, Steven -- Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy / Morgan, Michael L. -- Jewish Philosophy in North America / Novak, David -- On the Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America / Samuelson, Norbert M. -- Covenant and Social Contract: Classical Judaism and Classical Liberalism / Seeskin, Kenneth -- Philosophy, Jewish Thought, and the American Setting in My Work / Yaffe, Martin D. -- Jewish Philosophy and American Democracy / Galston, William A. -- Response / Mendes-Flohr, Paul -- Part II -- Maimonides on the Eternity of the World / Kreisel, Howard -- Maimonides on Creation / Seeskin, Kenneth -- Comments on Seeskin and Kreisel's Essays on Maimonides on Creation / Weiss, Roslyn -- Comments on Professor Kreisel's Paper / Manekin, Charles H. -- The Identity of the Sabians: Some Insights / Mazuz, Haggai -- Moses Ibn Tibbon's Concept of Vital Heat: A Reassessment of Peripatetic Epistemology in Terms of Natural Science / Fraisse, Ottfried -- The Phenomenology of Faith R. Soloveitchik's Analysis in And From There You Shall Seek / Schwartz, Dov -- Interactions between Karaite and Rabbanite Thought in Spain and Byzantium / Robinson, James T. --



'Anti Maimonidean Maimonideanism'? Some Remarks on a New Publication / Schwartz, Yossef

Sommario/riassunto

This collection includes two symposia, on "The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America" and on "Maimonides on the Eternity of the World," as well as other studies in medieval Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought. Contributors include: Leora Batnitzky, Ottfried Fraisse, William A. Galston, Lenn E. Goodman , Raphael Jospe, Steven Kepnes, Haim Howard Kreisel, Charles Bezalel Manekin, Haggai Mazuz, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Alan Mittleman, Michael Morgan, David Novak, James T. Robinson, Norbert M. Samuelson, Dov Schwartz, Yossef Schwartz, Kenneth Seeskin, Roslyn Weiss, and Martin Yaffe.