Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Expanding the Canon of Jewish Philosophy: Toward an Appreciation
of Genre
2. Judah Halevi: The Dialogue of Subversion
3. Shem Tov ibn Falaquera: Dialogues of Reconciliation and
Dissemination
4. Isaac Polleqar: The Dialogue of Disputation
5. Judah Abravanel: The Dialogue of Desire
6. Moses Mendelssohn: The Dialogue of Fragility
Epilogue: From Dialogue to Dialogic
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Jewish philosophy as a dynamic literary, cultural, and social practice
Aaron W. Hughes is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is author of The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (IUP, 2004).
"Represents an important new trend in Jewish philosophy, and moves the field one step closer to a complete social, cultural, and literary history." James Robinson, University of Chicago Divinity School
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