Gebundenes Buch

Crescas

Light of the Lord (or Hashem): Translated with Introduction and Notes

Übersetzer: Weiss, Roslyn

Beschreibung

This is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord, a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy. Crescas challenges the Aristotelian underpinnings of medieval thought, introduces alternative physical and metaphysical theories, and presents service to the God of love and benefaction as the goal for humankind.

Autor

Roslyn Weiss is the Clara H. Stewardson Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in Jewish Studies from the Baltimore Hebrew University. She has published four books on Plato and 50 scholarly articles on mainly Greek and Jewish philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724896
• ISBN-10: 0198724896
• Artikelnr.: 52821990