Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism

Name: Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism
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ISBN: 9780788501029

ISBN-10: 078850102X

ISBN-13: 9780788501029

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Authors: Hermann Cohen, Simon Kaplan, Leo Strauss, Steven S. Schwarzchild, Kenneth Seeskin

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Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. It is at once a Jewish book and a philosophical one: Jewish because it takes its material from the literary tradition that extends from the bible to the rabbis to the great medieval philosophers; philosophical because it studies that material in order to construct a worldview that is rational in the broadest sense of the term. This edition reprints a 1972 introduction by Leo Strauss and includes an essay on the work by Steven Schwarzchild. A new introduction by Kenneth R.…

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List price: $90.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books, among them The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History,and Spinoza's Critique of Religion, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Kenneth Seeskin is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He has published widely in the area of Jewish philosophy and his books include Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides (2000), Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age (1990), Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed (1991), No Other Gods (1995) and Dialogue and Discovery: A Study in Socratic Method (1987).