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Faith, Reason, Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought
Michah Gottleib
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Description for Faith, Reason, Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought
hardcover. Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss. Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 553.
The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss, ... Read more
The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Series
Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235872
SKU
V9781936235872
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About Michah Gottleib
Michah Gottlieb (PhD Indiana University) is assistant professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. Previously he taught at Brown University. He had held fellowships at Princeton University, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Humanities Initiative at NYU. He is author of Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011) and ... Read more
Reviews for Faith, Reason, Politics: Essays on the History of Jewish Thought
“Faith, Reason, Politics: Essays in the History of Jewish Thought brings together several penetrating studies of the relationship between faith and reason in the history of Jewish thought. Gottlieb writes with rigor and cogency about the medieval thinkers Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides and the modern tradition beginning with Baruch Spinoza and Moses Mendelssohn, and highlights the diversity and complexity ... Read more