Faith, reason, politics : essays on the history of Jewish thought /

This volume explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the 12th to the 20th centuries.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottlieb, Michah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies, 2013.
Series:Reference library of Jewish intellectual history series.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides*
  • II. Spinoza's Method(s) of Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered*
  • III. Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism*
  • IV. Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy
  • V. Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key Anti-Maimonideanism in Nineteenth-Century Orthodoxy
  • VI. Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubileumsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  • VII. Leo Strauss on Lessing's Spinozism*VIII. Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English*
  • IX. Sincere Irony: A Review of William Egginton's In Defense of Religious Moderation*
  • Permissions
  • Index