A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era : The <i>Book of the Covenant</i> 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
Autor principal: Ruderman, David B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : University of Washington Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah, > 1765-1821. > Sefer ha-berit.
Sefer ha-berit (Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah)
Science.
Judaism and science.
HISTORY > Jewish.
SCIENCE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Essays.
sciences (philosophy)
Judaïsme et sciences.
Sciences.
Electronic books.
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.

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