Thinking impossibilities the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein /

Thinking impossibilities the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein / edited by Robert S. Westman and David Biale. - Toronto [Ont. : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, (c)2008. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages : illustrations, portrait) - CCS ; 7 . - UCLA Clark Memorial Library series. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein -- part I. Historical Dialectics -- 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences / 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? / 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler / 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / part II. Historical Accommodations -- 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism / 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning / 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation / 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology / 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein / part III. Making Knowledge -- 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism / 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' / Last Words -- 13. Jewish History among the Thorns / Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein. Steven Livesey -- Robert S. Westman -- Gad Freudenthal -- Peter Hanns Reill -- Dorit Tanay -- Samuel Moyn -- Abraham P. Socher -- Carlo Ginzburg -- Joseph Mali -- J.L. Heilbron -- Richard H. Popkin -- Hanina Ben-Menahem -- Amos Funkenstein --



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