Menachem Kellner: Jewish Universalism
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, 254pp. Selected bibliography. Black over light blue boards, photo of Kellner on front cover. A fine, as new copy.
Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world. (Publisher)
Contents: Heresy and the nature of faith in Medieval Jewish philosophy / Menachem M. Kellner -- Maimonides on the science of the Mishneh Torah: provisional or permanent? / Menachem M. Kellner -- Maimonides' "True religion": for Jews or all humanity? / Menachem M. Kellner -- We are not alone / Menachem M. Kellner -- Interview with Menachem M. Kellner / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. (OCLC)
Brill's "Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers," Volume 12. Fine. Item #52115
ISBN: 9789004298279
Price: $125.00