Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title The cultures of Maimonideanism : new approaches to the history of Jewish thought / edited by James T. Robinson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 440 pages)
Series Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; v. 9
Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 9.
Contents The Project of Enlightenment in Islamic-Arabic Culture -- From Esotericism to Science: The Account of the Chariot in Maimonidean Philosophy till the End of the Thirteenth Century -- Competing Approaches to Maimonides in Early Kabbalah -- Ibn Ezra, a Maimonidean Authority: The Evidence of the Early Ibn Ezra Supercommentaries -- Between Maimonideanism and Averroism: Gersonides' Place within the Maimonidean Paradigm -- No Perpetual Enemies: Maimonideanism at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century -- Maimonides' Thirteen Principles: From Elite to Popular Culture -- Rabbi Joseph Karo and Sixteenth-Century Messianic Maimonideanism -- Maimonideanism in Leon Modena's Ari Nohem -- The Spectre of Maimonidean Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key: Anti-Maimonideanism in Nineteenth-Century Orthodoxy -- Manuel Joel and the Neo-Maimonidean Discovery of Kant -- Maimonides and Ethical Monotheism: The Influence of the Guide of the Perplexed on German Reform Judaism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century -- Between Eros within the Limits of Mere Reason: On the Maimonidean Limits of Modern Jewish Philosophy -- How to Read Maimonides after Heidegger: The Cases of Strauss and Levinas -- Maimonides in Religious-Zionist Philosophy: Unity vs. Duality
Summary In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) - philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This title presents a collection of papers that places primary emphasis on this influence - not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-436) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 -- Teachings
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 -- Influence
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
Maimonides, Moses.
Jewish philosophy.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Jewish philosophy
Teachings
Jüdische Philosophie
Genre/Form Kongress.
Oxford (2007)
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, James T., 1965-
ISBN 9789047427964
9047427963
9789004174504
9004174508