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Jewish Philosophy
Jospe, Raphael; Schwartz, Dov
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Description for Jewish Philosophy
This collection includes two symposia, on "The Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America" and on "Maimonides on the Eternity of the World," as well as other studies in medieval Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB; HRJP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 640.
In a lecture title “Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary,” Paul Mendes-Flohr observed that “Jewish philosophers seem to be a dying breed.” However tongue in cheek the statement may have been at the close of the twentieth century by a scholar of modern Jewish thought, a similar pessimistic observation was made quite seriously at the beginning of the twentieth century by Isaac Husik in his History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1916), which he sadly concludes with the words, “There are Jews now and there are philosophers, but there are no Jewish philosophers and there is no Jewish philosophy.”
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In a lecture title “Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary,” Paul Mendes-Flohr observed that “Jewish philosophers seem to be a dying breed.” However tongue in cheek the statement may have been at the close of the twentieth century by a scholar of modern Jewish thought, a similar pessimistic observation was made quite seriously at the beginning of the twentieth century by Isaac Husik in his History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1916), which he sadly concludes with the words, “There are Jews now and there are philosophers, but there are no Jewish philosophers and there is no Jewish philosophy.”
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Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618111609
SKU
V9781618111609
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About Jospe, Raphael; Schwartz, Dov
Raphael Jospe teaches Jewish philosophy at Ariel and at Bar-Ilan Universities, and served as editor of the Jewish Philosophy division of the Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd edition), and currently is editor of the Jewish philosophy division of the planned new edition of the Encyclopedia Hebraica. Among his books, Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages was published by Academic Studies Press. Dov ... Read more
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