Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29827-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers

Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three

decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as

several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy,

and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava

Hughes, Aaron W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Contributors
Editors’ Introduction to Series
Menachem M. Kellner: An Intellectual Portrait James Diamond
Heresy and the Nature of Faith in Medieval Jewish Philosophy Menachem Kellner
Maimonides on the Science of the "Mishneh Torah": Provisional or Permanent? Menachem Kellner
Maimonides' “True Religion”: For Jews or All Humanity?Menachem Kellner
We Are Not Alone Menachem Kellner
Interview with Menachem M. Kellner Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Select Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.