Faith, Reason, Politics : : Essays on the History of Jewish Thought / / Michah Gottlieb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gottlieb, Michah,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides --; II. Spinoza’s Method(s) of Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered --; III. Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism --; IV. Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy --; V. Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key Anti-Maimonideanism in Nineteenth-Century Orthodoxy --; VI. Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubiläumsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany --; VII. Leo Strauss on Lessing’s Spinozism --; VIII. Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English --; IX. Sincere Irony: A Review of William Egginton’s In Defense of Religious Moderation --; Permissions --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618110848; 9783111024080; 9783110688146
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618110848
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michah Gottlieb.

The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the problem of faith versus reason and in the relationship between religion and politics.