An important contribution to the ongoing debate about how to define medieval Jewish philosophy ... Rudavsky's book demonstrates that there was a need for a fresh approach to the field. It may yet give scholars hope for a resurgence of interest in medieval Jewish philosophy among new students and veteran scholars alike.

Autorentext

T.M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She is co-editor with Prof. Steven Nadler of the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009) and author of Time Matters: Time, Creation and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2000). Her most recent book Maimonides (2010) has appeared in the "Great Minds" series with Blackwells-Wiley Press. She is the author of numerous articles and encyclopedia entries, and her major research continues to focus on issues connected to philosophical cosmology in medieval Jewish and scholastic thought.

Klappentext

T. M. Rudavsky tells the story of the development of Jewish philosophy from the 10th century to Spinoza in the 17th, as part of a dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. She gives a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought.

Inhalt

• 1: Introduction: What Is Jewish Philosophy?

• 2: Athens, Jerusalem, and Beyond: The Formative Schools and Personalities

• 3: On Achieving Truth: Science, Philosophy, and Faith

• 4: Divine Science: The Existence and Nature of God

• 5: Philosophical Theology: God, Suffering, and Omniscience

• 6: Creation, Time, and Eternity

• 7: Philosophical Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe

• 8: On Immortality and the Nature of the Soul

• 9: Social and Political Thought: Happiness, Virtue, and Living the Good Life

• 10: Concluding Comments