04367nam 2200829 450 991078111780332120231206214051.01-4426-9263-41-4426-8940-410.3138/9781442689404(CKB)2550000000019391(EBL)3268416(OCoLC)923772733(SSID)ssj0000478900(PQKBManifestationID)11342907(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478900(PQKBWorkID)10435055(PQKB)10555525(CaPaEBR)430869(CaBNvSL)slc00224392(DE-B1597)465374(OCoLC)1013939356(OCoLC)944176520(DE-B1597)9781442689404(Au-PeEL)EBL4672694(CaPaEBR)ebr11258349(OCoLC)958572082(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/cw2hfp(MiAaPQ)EBC4672694(OCoLC)1320934779(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106165(MiAaPQ)EBC3268416(EXLCZ)99255000000001939120160923h20082008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThinking impossibilities the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein /edited by Robert S. Westman and David BialeToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenthand Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,2008.©20081 online resource (380 p.)UCLA Center/Clark Series0-8020-9795-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein -- pt. I. Historical Dialectics -- 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences / Steven Livesey -- 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? / Robert S. Westman -- 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / Gad Freudenthal -- 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler / Peter Hanns Reill -- 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / Dorit Tanay -- pt. II. Historical Accommodations -- 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism / Samuel Moyn -- 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning / Abraham P. Socher -- 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation / Carlo Ginzburg -- 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology / Joseph Mali -- 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein / J.L. Heilbron -- pt. III. Making Knowledge -- 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism / Richard H. Popkin -- 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' / Hanina Ben-Menahem -- Last Words -- 13. Jewish History among the Thorns / Amos Funkenstein -- Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein.Richly interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking Impossibilities is a fitting tribute to an important twentieth-century scholar.UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.HistoryPhilosophyScienceHistoryJewsHistoryEuropeIntellectual lifeFestschriften.History.Festschriften.Electronic books. HistoryPhilosophy.ScienceHistory.JewsHistory.901Westman Robert S.Biale David1949-William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.University of California, Los Angeles.Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781117803321Thinking impossibilities3856027UNINA