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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jospe, Raphael.

Schwartz, Dov.

Series:

Emunot : Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

Emunot, Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Israeli.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61811-182-5

OCLC:

819379971