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Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy

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The first of its kind, this essay collection offers an extensive examination of Spinoza's relationship to medieval Jewish philosophy.

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Introduction Steven Nadler; 1. Mortality of the soul from Alexander of Aphrodisias to Spinoza Jacob Adler; 2. Spinoza and the determinist tradition in medieval Jewish philosophy Charles Manekin; 3. The science of scripture: Abraham Ibn Ezra and Spinoza on biblical hermeneutics T. M. Rudavsky; 4. Spinoza's rejection of Maimonideanism Steven Frankel; 5. Ishq, Hesheq, and Amor Dei Intellectualis Warren Zev Harvey; 6. Monotheism at bay: the gods of Maimonides and Spinoza Kenneth Seeskin; 7. Moral agency without free will: Spinoza's naturalizing of moral psychology in a Maimonidean key Heidi Ravven; 8. Virtue, reason, and moral luck: Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza Steven Nadler; 9. 'Something of it remains': Spinoza and Gersonides on intellectual eternity Julie R. Klein; 10. Hasdai Crescas and Spinoza on actual infinity and the infinity of God's attributes Yitzhak Y. Melamed.

About the author

Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is also a faculty member of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. His previous publications include Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 2001), Rembrandt's Jews (2003), Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction (Cambridge, 2006), Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy (co-edited with T. M. Rudavsky, Cambridge, 2009) and A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (2011).

Summary

This essay collection considers the various dimensions of the rich but under-studied relationship between Spinoza's thought and medieval Jewish philosophy. It provides an extensive analysis of how different elements in Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political and religious thought relate to the views of his Jewish philosophical forebears.

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