Alienated Wisdom

Giuseppe Veltri

• Paperback | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 3
• The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start ... Lees meer

Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 5
• The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to defending Judaism, a... Lees meer

Isaac Orobio

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 2
• In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among... Lees meer

Alienated Wisdom

Giuseppe Veltri

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 3
• The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start ... Lees meer

Socrates, or on Human Knowledge

Simone Luzzatto

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 8
• Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge , published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely scept... Lees meer

Abraham Abulafia's Esotericism

Moshe Idel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 4
• This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theo... Lees meer

Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 12
• Scepticism has been the driving force in the development of Greco-Roman culture in the past, and the impetus for far-reaching scientific achievements ... Lees meer

Bruce Nauman

Adi Louria Hayon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 10
• To date, scholars explored Bruce Nauman's oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and kn... Lees meer

Judah Halevi's Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzari

Ehud Krinis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 11
• As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs ... Lees meer

Discourse on the State of the Jews

Simone Luzzatto

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 7
• In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published "appresso Gioanne Calleoni" under the title "Discourse on the State of the Jews... Lees meer

Sceptical Paths

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 6
• Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key argu... Lees meer

Converts of Conviction

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies and Texts in Scepticism | nr. 1
• The study of Jewish converts to Christianity in the modern era has long been marginalized in Jewish historiography. Labeled disparagingly in the Jewis... Lees meer