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History of Jewish philosophy [electronic resource]

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Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought. The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context are stressed, building up a comprehensive and historically sensitive view of Jewish philosophy and its place in the development of philosophy as a whole. Includes:· Det

Title History of Jewish philosophy [electronic resource] / edited by Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1997
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Front Cover
History of Jewish Philosophy
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface
1. What is Jewish philosophy?: Daniel H.Frank
I. Foundations and first principles
2. The Bible as a source for philosophical reflection: Shalom Carmy and David Shatz
3. Hellenistic Jewish philosophy: David Winston
4. The Talmud as a source for philosophical reflection: David Novak
II. Medieval Jewish philosophy
5. The nature of medieval Jewish philosophy: Alexander Broadie
6. The Islamic social and cultural context: Steven M.Wasserstrom
7. Kalam in medieval Jewish philosophy: Haggai Ben-Shammai8. Medieval Jewish Neoplatonism: T.M.Rudavsky
9. Judah Halevi: Lenn E.Goodman
10. Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism: an introduction: Norbert M.Samuelson
11. Moses Maimonides: Howard Kreisel
12. Maimonides and Aquinas: Alexander Broadie
13. The social and cultural context: thirteenth to fifteenth centuries: Marc Saperstein
14. The Maimonidean controversy: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
15. Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview: Charles H.Manekin
16. Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides): Seymour Feldman
17. Chasdai Crescas: Daniel J.Lasker18. Medieval and Renaissance Jewish political philosophy: Abraham Melamed
19. Jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview: Elliot R.Wolfson
20. Jewish philosophy on the eve of modernity: Hava Tirosh-Rothschild
III. Modern Jewish philosophy
21. The nature of modern Jewish philosophy: Ze'ev Levy
22. The social and cultural context: seventeenth-century Europe: Elisheva Carlebach
23. The Jewish community of Amsterdam: Richard H.Popkin
24. Spinoza: Seymour Feldman
25. The social and cultural context: eighteenth-century Enlightenment: Lois C.Dubin
26. Mendelssohn: Michael L.Morgan27. Nineteenth-century German Reform philosophy: Mordecai Finley
28. The ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David N.Myers
29. Samson Raphael Hirsch: Harry Lesser
30. Traditional reactions to modern Jewish Reform: the paradigm of German Orthodoxy: David Ellenson
IV. Contemporary Jewish philosophy
31. Jewish nationalism: Ze'ev Levy
32. Zionism: Ze'ev Levy
33. Jewish neo-Kantianism: Hermann Cohen: Kenneth Seeskin
34. Jewish existentialism: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Soloveitchik: Oliver Leaman
35. Leo Strauss: Kenneth Hart Green
36. The Shoah: Steven T.Katz37. Postmodern Jewish philosophy: Richard A.Cohen
38. Jewish feminist thought: Judith Plaskow
39. The future of Jewish philosophy: Oliver Leaman
Index of names
Index of terms
Series Routledge history of world philosophies
v. 2
Extent 1 online resource (870 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700333805171
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