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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Seattle, Washington ; London, England :
University of Washington Press,
2014.
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Series: | Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.