Reinventing Maimonides in contemporary Jewish thought /

Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition 'consists of a series of footnotes to Plato' could equally characterize Maimonides' place in the Jewish...

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Main Authors: Diamond, James Arthur (Author), Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, [2019]
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Rabbi Naftali Tsevi Yehudah Berlin: the love of Israel versus the love of the mind / James A. Diamond
  • Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Maimonides / Menachem Kellner
  • Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and the mystification of Maimonidean rationalism / James A. Diamond
  • Maimonides and Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira: abandoning reason in the Warsaw Ghetto / James A. Diamond
  • Rabbi Elhanan Wasserman on Maimonides, and Maimonides on 'Reb Elhanan' / Menachem Kellner
  • Each generation and its Maimonides: the Maimonides of Rabbi Aharon Kotler / Menachem Kellner
  • What, not who, is a Jew: Halevi-Maimonides in those days, Rabbi Aviner and Rabbi Kafih in our day / Menachem Kellner.