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History of Jewish Philosophy Routledge History of World Philosophies Volume II History of Jewish Philosophy EDITED BY Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman ~ l Routledge ~ ~ Taylor &Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1997 by Routledge 29 West 3 5.th Street, New York, NY 10001 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge l l New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE First published in paperback 200J Routledge is an imprint ofthe Taylor & Francis Group Selection and editorial matter© 1997, 2003 Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman Individual chapters© 1997, 2003 the contributors Typeset in Garamond by Refinecatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data History of Jewish Philosophy I Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, [editors]. 934p. 24cm. - (Routledge history of world philosophies; v.2) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-415-080649 (hbk) l. Philosophy, Jewish-History 2. Judaism -History I. Frank, Daniel H., 1950- II. Leaman, Oliver, 1950- LC95026075 Br54.H57 1997 DC181/ .06 20 ISBN 0-41 5--08064-9 (hbk) ISBN 0-41 5-32469-6 (pbk) Contents Notes on contributors 1X Preface Xl I What is Jewish philosophy? I Daniel H. Frank I Foundations and first principles 2 The Bible as a source for philosophical reflection 13 Shalom Carmy and David Shatz 3 Hellenistic Jewish philosophy David Winston 4 The Talmud as a source for philosophical reflection 62 David Novak II Medieval Jewish philosophy 5 The nature of medieval Jcwish philosophy Alexander Broadie 6 The Islamic social and cultural context 93 Steven M. Wass.erstrom 7 Kalam in medieval Jewish philosophy Haggai Ben-Shammai 8 Medieval Jewish N eoplatonism 149 T. M. Rudavsky v CONTENTS 9 Judah Halevi 188 Lenn E. Goodman 10 Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism: an introduction 228 Norbert M. Samuelson II Moses Maimonides 245 Howard Kreisel 12 Maimonides and Aquinas 281 Alexander Broadie 13 The social and cultural context: thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 294 Marc Saperstein r4 The Maimonidean controversy 331 I dit Dobbs-Weinstein 15 Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview 350 Charles H. Manekin 16 Levi ben Gershom (Ge~sonides) 379 Seymour Feldman 17 Chasdai Crescas 399 Daniel]. Lasker 18 Medieval and Renaissance Jewish political philosophy 415 Abraham Melamed 19 Jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview 450 Elliot R. Wolfson 20 Jewish philosophy on the eve of modernity 499 Rava Tirosh-Rothschild III Modern Jewish philosophy 21 The nature of modern Jewish philosophy 577 Ze'ev Levy Vi CONTENTS 22 The social and cultural context: seventeenth-century Europe 589 Elisheva Carlebach 23 The Jewish community of Amster~in 600 Richard H. Popkin 24 Spinoza 612 Seymour Feldman 25 The social and cultural context: eighteenth-century Enlightenment 636 Lois C. Dubin 26 Mendelssohn 660 Michael L. Morgan 27 Nineteenth-century German Reform philosophy 682 Mordecai Finley 28 The ideology of Wissenschaft des J udentums 706 DavidN. Myers 29 Samson Raphael Hirsch 721 Harry Lesser 30 Traditional reactions to modern Jewish Reform: the paradigm of German Orthodoxy 732 David Ellenson IV Contemporary Jewish philosophy 31 Jewish nationalism 76r Ze'ev Levy 32 Zionism 776 Ze'ev Levy 33 Jewish neo-Kantianism: Hermann Cohen 786 Kenneth Seeskin 34 Jewish existentialism: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Soloveitchik 799 Oliver Leaman Vll CONTENTS 35 Leo Strauss 820 Kenneth Hart Green 36 The Shoah 854 Steven T. Katz 37 Postmodern Jewish philosophy 875 Richard A. Cohen 38 Jewish feminist thought 885 Judith Plaskow 39 The future of Jewish philosophy 895 Oliver Leaman Index of names 908 Index of terms 925 Vlll .
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