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Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany
George Y. Kohler
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Hardback. This study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, specifically the Guide for the Perplexed, from reformers of the early 1800s to the development of a sophisticated reform-theology in the writings of Hermann Cohen more then a hundred years later. Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HPD; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 736.
This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same time, it shall be demonstrated how the Reform Movement in Judaism used the Guide for its own agenda of historizing, rationalizing and finally turning Judaism into a philosophical enterprise of ‘ethical monotheism’. The study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, and the Guide specifically, through the nineteenth century, from the first beginnings of early reformers in 1810 and ... Read more
This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same time, it shall be demonstrated how the Reform Movement in Judaism used the Guide for its own agenda of historizing, rationalizing and finally turning Judaism into a philosophical enterprise of ‘ethical monotheism’. The study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, and the Guide specifically, through the nineteenth century, from the first beginnings of early reformers in 1810 and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Series
Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400740341
SKU
V9789400740341
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