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A best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era : the book of the covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy /

"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruderman, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press, 2014.
Colección:Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Hague dialogues
  • Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: towards a biography of a popular author and aggressive book
  • Why should a Kabbalist care about the natural world? the meaning of scientific knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz
  • Judaism and metaphysics: Hurwitz's epistemological and historical critique of philosophy
  • The moral cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: some initial conjectures
  • The readers of Sefer ha-brit
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I: Editions of Sefer ha-brit
  • Appendix II: Hurwitz's instructions on printing his book from his second introduction
  • Appendix III: The contents of Sefer ha-brit.