Jewish Philosophy: Perspectives and Retrospectives

Published by Academic Studies Press 2012

Jewish Philosophy

Perspectives and Retrospectives

Edited by: Raphael Jospe and Dov Schwartz

In the series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618111821

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Raphael Jospe teaches Jewish philosophy at Ariel and at Bar-Ilan Universities, and served as editor of the Jewish Philosophy division of the Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd edition), and currently is editor of the Jewish philosophy division of the planned new edition of the Encyclopedia Hebraica. Among his books, Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages was published by Academic Studies Press. Dov Schwartz, a former Dean of Humanities at Bar Ilan University and head of the departments of Philosophy and of Music, currently heads its interdisciplinary unit, and holds the Natalie and Isidore Friedman Chair on Teaching Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Thought. Among his various books, Religious Zionism: History and Ideology was published by Academic Studies Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Editors’ Introduction Raphael Jospe and Dov Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Part I
Introduction Alan Mittleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Coming After: American Jewish Thought in Light of German Judaism Leora Batnitzky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Doing Jewish Philosophy in America Lenn E. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Thinking Through Scripture and Liturgy after the Shoah Steven Kepnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy Michael L. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Jewish Philosophy in North America David Novak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
On the Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America Norbert M. Samuelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Covenant and Social Contract: Classical Judaism and Classical Liberalism Kenneth Seeskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Philosophy, Jewish Thought, and the American Setting in My Work Martin D. Yaffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Jewish Philosophy and American Democracy William A. Galston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Response Paul Mendes-Flohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Part II
Maimonides on the Eternity of the World Howard Kreisel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Maimonides on Creation Kenneth Seeskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Comments on Seeskin and Kreisel’s Essays on Maimonides on Creation Roslyn Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Comments on Professor Kreisel’s Paper Charles H. Manekin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
The Identity of the Sabians: Some Insights Haggai Mazuz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Moses Ibn Tibbon’s Concept of Vital Heat: A Reassessment of Peripatetic Epistemology in Terms of Natural Science Ottfried Fraisse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
The Phenomenology of Faith R. Soloveitchik’s Analysis in And From There You Shall Seek Dov Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Interactions between Karaite and Rabbanite Thought in Spain and Byzantium James T. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
‘Anti Maimonidean Maimonideanism’? Some Remarks on a New Publication Yossef Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
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Published: September 1, 2012
ISBN: 9781618111821