Studies and Texts in Scepticism – serie
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Converts of Conviction
Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society
Inbunden, 2017
916 kr
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The study of Jewish converts to Christianity in the modern era has long been marginalized in Jewish historiography. Labeled disparagingly in the Jewish tradition as meshumadim (apostates), many earlier Jewish scholars treated these individuals in a negative light or generally ignored them as not …
Discourse on the State of the Jews
Bilingual Edition
Av Simone Luzzatto, Giuseppe Veltri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1791 kr
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In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled …
Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought
Inbunden, 2018
1432 kr
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The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to defending Judaism, and, on the other hand, to remaining loyal to philosophical principles. Maimonides is considered the most prominent Jewish religious philosopher, …
Socrates, or on Human Knowledge
Bilingual Edition
Av Simone Luzzatto, Giuseppe Veltri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1753 kr
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Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main …
Isaac Orobio
The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt
Inbunden, 2018
1408 kr
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In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. He was also the major author who rebutted Benedict Spinoza’s Freethought from …
Sceptical Paths
Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present
Av Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1237 kr
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Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key arguments are reassessed, lesser-known figures are reintroduced, accepted distinctions are challenged, and new ideas are explored. The historiography of …
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism
Secrets and Doubts
Av Moshe Idel
Inbunden, 2020
1506 kr
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This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three …
Alienated Wisdom
Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism
Inbunden, 2018
1563 kr
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The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection …
Touch of Doubt
On Haptic Scepticism
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical …
Bruce Nauman
Performative Scepticism and the Aporia of Sense
Inbunden, 2024
1959 kr
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To date, scholars explored Bruce Nauman’s oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and knowledge, sound, the political and more. Amidst this vast and rich field, Nauman’s pieces have been regarded by critics in terms of systematic …
Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari
Av Ehud Krinis
Inbunden, 2020
1367 kr
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As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs of Judah Halevi’s classic theological The Kuzari (written ca. 1140) received very little scholarly attention so far. Thus, the present study seeks to …
Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism
Av Reuven Kiperwasser, Geoffrey Herman
Inbunden, 2021
1481 kr
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Scepticism has been the driving force in the development of Greco-Roman culture in the past, and the impetus for far-reaching scientific achievements and philosophical investigation. Early Jewish culture, in contrast, avoided creating consistent representations of its philosophical doctrines. …
Alienated Wisdom
Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection …
