The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Socher, Abraham P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804751366 ISBN 13 : 9780804751360

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late-eighteenth century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Kant, charmed Goethe, and inspired Fichte, among others. This is the first study of Maimon to integrate his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his early unpublished exegetical, mystical, and Maimonidean work in Hebrew. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and spiritual possibilities open to a European Jew at the turn of the eighteenth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Abraham P. Socher is Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. His essays have appeared in scholarly journals and edited volumes as well as in the Times Literary Supplement and theChronicle of Education. This is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804751366
• ISBN 13: 9780804751360
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible