Thinking Impossibilities : : The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein /

Thinking Impossibilities : : The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein / / David Biale, Robert S. Westman.

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Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable scholarly boundaries. The philosophy of history from...

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Biale, David,
Westman, Robert S.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein / Biale, David / Westman, Robert S.
  • PART I: HISTORICAL DIALECTICS
  • 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences / Livesey, Steven
  • 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? / Westman, Robert S.
  • 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / Freudenthal, Gad
  • 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler / Reill, Peter Hanns
  • 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / Tanay, Dorit
  • PART II: HISTORICAL ACCOMMODATIONS
  • 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism / Moyn, Samuel
  • 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning / Socher, Abraham P.
  • 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation / Ginzburg, Carlo
  • 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology / Mali, Joseph
  • 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein / Heilbron, J.L.
  • PART III: MAKING KNOWLEDGE
  • 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism / Popkin, Richard H.
  • 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' / Ben-Menahem, Hanina
  • LAST WORDS
  • 13. Jewish History among the Thorns / Funkenstein, Amos
  • A Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein
  • Contributors
  • Index

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