The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Series) »

Kenneth Seeskin is a Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award. He is the author of Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age, Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed, No Other Gods: The Modern Struggle Against Idolatry, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, and Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy.

Discusses the problems Maimonides encountered, showing the depth and breadth of his philosophical thought.

1. Moses Maimonides: an intellectual portrait Joel Kraemer;
2. The Guide and Maimonides' philosophical sources Alfred L. Ivry;
3. Metaphysics and its transcendence Kenneth Seeskin;
4. Maimonides' epistemology Josef Stern;
5. Maimonides' philosophy of sciences Gad Freudenthal;
6. Maimonides' moral theory David Shatz;
7. Maimonides' political philosophy Haim Kreisel;
8. Jurisprudence David Novak;
9. Bible commentary Sara Klein-Braslavy;
10. Spiritual life Menachem Kellner;
11. Maimonides' esotericism and educational philosophy Aviezer Ravitsky;
12. Maimonides: a guide for posterity Seymour Feldman.