Religion of Reason: Out of the Sources of Judaism (AAR Religions in Translation)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078850102X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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A new introduction by Kenneth R. Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. This edition reprints a 1972 introduction by Leo Strauss and includes an essay on the work by Steven Schwarzchild. Seeskin situates Cohen's masterwork in the history of modern philosophical and religious thought.. It is at once a Jewish book and a philosophical one: Jewish because it takes its material from the literary tradition that extends from the bible to the rabbis to the great medieval philosophers; philosophical because it studies that material in order to construct a worldview that is rational in the broadest sense of the term
Kenneth Seeskin is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. . He has published widely in the area of Jewish philosophy and his books include Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides (2000), Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age (1990), Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed (1991), No Other Gods (1995) and Dialogue and Discovery: A Study in Socratic Method (1987)
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
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