Dialectic of Separation : : Judaism and Philosophy in the Work of Salomon Munk / / Chiara Adorisio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Religious Studies ASP
• VerfasserIn: Adorisio, Chiara,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk. Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, appearing here for the first time, it offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munk's life and work. Munk, who emigrated from his native Glogau to Paris to pursue his studies, was to exert a major influence on the development of Islamic and Jewish studies in both France and Germany, giving a vital impetus to the debate over the nature of Jewish philosophy at a time when medieval Jewish philosophers (such as Maimonides) and their Arabic and Islamic sources were completely neglected in philosophical historiography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Salomon Munk (1803-1867): His Life and Work -- 2. Salomon Munk and the Problem of Jewish Philosophy -- 3. Salomon Munk and Twentieth- Century Jewish Philosophy -- 4. Bibliography -- 5. Chronology of the Works of Salomon Munk -- 6. APPENDIX 1: Letters -- 7. APPENDIX 2: Biographical Descriptions -- Index