Dialectic of Separation

Judaism and Philosophy in the Work of Salomon Munk

von Chiara Adorisio

226 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk. Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, appearing here for the first time, it offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munk's life and work. Munk, who emigrated from his native Glogau to Paris to pursue his studies, was to exert a major influence on the development of Islamic and Jewish studies in both France and Germany, giving a vital impetus to the debate over the nature of Jewish philosophy at a time when medieval Jewish philosophers (such as Maimonides) and their Arabic and Islamic sources were completely neglected in philosophical historiography.

• Reihe: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Religiöse Gemeinschaften
• ISBN: 9781618116536
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2017
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Academic Studies Press