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1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages : illustrations, portrait). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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CCS ; 7
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein -- pt. I. Historical Dialectics -- 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences / Steven Livesey -- 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? / Robert S. Westman -- 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) / Gad Freudenthal -- 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler / Peter Hanns Reill -- 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period / Dorit Tanay -- pt. II. Historical Accommodations -- 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism / Samuel Moyn -- 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning / Abraham P. Socher -- 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation / Carlo Ginzburg -- 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology / Joseph Mali -- 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein / J.L. Heilbron -- pt. III. Making Knowledge -- 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism / Richard H. Popkin -- 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' / Hanina Ben-Menahem -- Last Words -- 13. Jewish History among the Thorns / Amos Funkenstein -- Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Funkenstein, Amos.
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Funkenstein, Amos. |
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Funkenstein, Amos. |
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Funkenstein, Amos. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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Jews -- History.
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Jews. |
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- History.
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Europe. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Biale, David, 1949-
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Westman, Robert S.
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thinking impossibilities. Toronto ; Buffalo : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, ©2008 (DLC) 2008275470 |
| ISBN |
9781442689404 (electronic book) |
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1442689404 (electronic book) |
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9780802097958 |
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0802097952 |
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