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Thinking impossibilities the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein
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- ISBN: 9781442689404 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1442689404 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780802097958
- ISBN: 0802097952
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1 online resource (xiii, 365 p. : ill., port.) - Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, c2008
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| General Note: | Multi-user. CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-User. Terms of use - |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein -- pt. I. Historical Dialectics -- 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences / Steven Livesey -- 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? / Robert S. Westman -- 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / Gad Freudenthal -- 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler / Peter Hanns Reill -- 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / Dorit Tanay -- pt. II. Historical Accommodations -- 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism / Samuel Moyn -- 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning / Abraham P. Socher -- 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation / Carlo Ginzburg -- 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology / Joseph Mali -- 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein / J.L. Heilbron -- pt. III. Making Knowledge -- 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism / Richard H. Popkin -- 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' / Hanina Ben-Menahem -- Last Words -- 13. Jewish History among the Thorns / Amos Funkenstein -- Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein. |
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