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Memoirs Hans Jonas
ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...
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£32,00
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Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781584657125, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677), the seventeenth-century philosopher, pioneering biblical critic, and Jewish heretic from Amsterdam. Revered in...
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£20,00
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Modern French Jewish Thought Writings on Religion and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781512601862, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the...
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£20,00
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Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848
ISBN: PB: 9781611685794, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the...
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£30,00
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Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile The Making of a Political Philosopher
ISBN: HB: 9781584656005, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2007
188 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Born in rural Hesse, Germany, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) became an active Zionist and philosopher during the tumultuous and fractious Weimar Republic. As Eugene R. Sheppard demonstrates in this groundbreaking and engaging book, Strauss gravitated toward...
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£40,00
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Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig
ISBN: PB: 9781584652496, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.
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£24,00
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