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History of Jewish Philosophy »

Authors: Daniel Frank, Oliver Leaman
ISBN-13: 9780415324694, ISBN-10: 0415324696
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Daniel Frank

Book Synopsis

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.

	Notes on contributors
	Preface
1	What is Jewish philosophy?	1
2	The Bible as a source for philosophical reflection	13
3	Hellenistic Jewish philosophy	38
4	The Talmud as a source for philosophical reflection	62
5	The nature of medieval Jewish philosophy	83
6	The Islamic social and cultural context	93
7	Kalam in medieval Jewish philosophy	115
8	Medieval Jewish Neoplatonism	149
9	Judah Halevi	188
10	Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism: an introduction	228
11	Moses Maimonides	245
12	Maimonides and Aquinas	281
13	The social and cultural context: thirteenth to fifteenth centuries	294
14	The Maimonidean controversy	331
15	Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview	350
16	Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides)	379
17	Chasdai Crescas	399
18	Medieval and Renaissance Jewish political philosophy	415
19	Jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview	450
20	Jewish philosophy on the eve of modernity	499
21	The nature of modern Jewish philosophy	577
22	The social and cultural context: seventeenth-century Europe	589
23	The Jewish community of Amsterdam	600
24	Spinoza	612
25	The social and cultural context: eighteenth-century Enlightenment	636
26	Mendelssohn	660
27	Nineteenth-century German Reform philosophy	682
28	The ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums	706
29	Samson Raphael Hirsch	721
30	Traditional reactions to modern Jewish Reform: the paradigm of German Orthodoxy	732
31	Jewish nationalism	761
32	Zionism	776
33	Jewish neo-Kantianism: Hermann Cohen	786
34	Jewish existentialism: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Soloveitchik	799
35	Leo Strauss	820
36	The Shoah	854
37	Postmodern Jewish philosophy	875
38	Jewish feminist thought	885
39	The future of Jewish philosophy	895
	Index of names	908
	Index of terms	925