The Cambridge companion to Maimonides / edited by Kenneth Seeskin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seeskin, Kenneth, 1947-

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.

Maimonides, Moses.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Teachings.

Jewish philosophy.

Teachings.

Physical Description:

xv, 406 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

Moses ben Maimon, known to English-speaking audiences as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the Middle Ages and played a pivotal role in the transition of philosophy from the Islamic East to the Christian West. His greatest philosophical work, The Guide of the Perplexed, had a decisive impact on all subsequent Jewish thought and is still the subject of intense scholarly debate. An enigmatic figure in his own time, Maimonides continues to defy simple attempts at classification. The twelve essays in this volume, all by leaders in their respective fields, offer a lucid and comprehensive treatment of his life and thought. They cover the sources on which Maimonides drew, his contributions to philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, and Bible commentary, as well as his esoteric writing style and influence on later thinkers.

Contents:

Moses Maimonides : an intellectual portrait / Joel L. Kraemer

The guide and Maimonides' philosophical sources / Alfred L. Ivry

Metaphysics and its transcendence / Kenneth Seeskin

Maimonides' epistemology / Josef Stern

Maimonides' philosophy of science / Gad Freudenthal

Maimonides' moral theory / David Shatz

Maimonides' political philosophy / Haim Kreisel

Jurisprudence / David Novak

Bible commentary / Sara Klein-Braslavy

Spiritual life / Menachem Kellner

Maimonides : esotericism and educational philosophy / Aviezer Ravitzky

Maimonides-a guide for posterity / Seymour Feldman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-389) and index.

ISBN:

0521819741

0521525780

OCLC:

56420149

Publisher Number:

9780521819749

9780521525787