Thinking impossibilities the intellectual legacy of Amos Funkenstein / edited by Robert S. Westman and David Biale.

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

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