Thinking Impossibilities : The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein.
Richly interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking Impossibilities is a fitting tribute to an important twentieth-century scholar.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Biale, David. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008. |
| Series: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein
- PART I: HISTORICAL DIALECTICS
- 1 Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences
- 2 Was Kepler a Secular Theologian?
- 3 Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744)
- 4 Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler
- 5 Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
- PART II: HISTORICAL ACCOMMODATIONS
- 6 Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism
- 7 Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning
- 8 History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation
- 9 Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology
- 10 Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein
- PART III: MAKING KNOWLEDGE
- 11 Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism
- 12 Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher'
- LAST WORDS
- 13 Jewish History among the Thorns
- A Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein
- Contributors
- Index
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