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The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild

The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild

Kellner, Menachem

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Series: Suny Jewish Philosophy

General Eastern ReligionsGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0791402207
ISBN13: 9780791402207
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 6 1990
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Steven Schwarzschild-rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher-is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking that began with Sa'adia Gaon and reached its highest expression in Maimonides. These thinkers believed that Judaism must confront some systematic view of the universe. Sa'adia did this with Kalam, ibn Gabirol with Neo-Platonism, and Maimonides with Aristotelianism. Schwarzschild does it with Neo-Kantianism. From this confrontation, Schwarzschild derives important insights into the nature and structure of contemporary Judaism and Jewish existence in the post-modern world.

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