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A best-selling Hebrew book of the modern era : the book of the covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and its remarkable legacy / David B. Ruderman
VerfasserRuderman, Daṿid In der Gemeinsamen Normdatei der DNB nachschlagen In Wikipedia suchen nach Daṿid Ruderman
ErschienenSeattle, Wash. [u.a.] : Univ. of Washington Press, 2014
UmfangXVI, 172 S.
Anmerkung
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Hague dialogues -- Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: towards a biography of a popular author and aggressive book -- Why should a Kabbalist care about the natural world? the meaning of scientific knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz -- Judaism and metaphysics: Hurwitz's epistemological and historical critique of philosophy -- The moral cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: some initial conjectures -- The readers of Sefer ha-brit -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Editions of Sefer ha-brit -- Appendix II: Hurwitz's instructions on printing his book from his second introduction -- Appendix III: The contents of Sefer ha-brit
SerieThe Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
ISBN978-0-295-99413-0
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Zusammenfassung

"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"--