| Ethics of Maimonides Contributor(s): Cohen, Hermann (Author), Bruckstein, Almut Sh (Translator), Gibbs, Robert (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0299177645 ISBN-13: 9780299177645 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: Hermann Cohen's essay on Maimonides' ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cohen rejects the notion that we should try to understand texts of the past solely in the context of their own historical era. Subverting the historical order, he interprets the ethical meanings of texts in the light of a future yet to be realized. He commits the entire Jewish tradition to a universal socialism prophetically inspired by ideals of humanity, peace, and universal justice. Through her own probing commentary on Cohen's text, like the margin notes of a medieval treatise, Bruckstein performs the hermeneutical act that lies at the core of Cohen's argument: she reads Jewish sources from a perspective that recognizes the interpretive act of commentary itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Theology - Religion | Ethics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 296.360 |
| LCCN: 2001005417 |
| Series: Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.12" W x 9.02" (0.89 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: German scholar of philosopher and Judaism Cohen's (1842-1918) essay Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis first appeared in his 1908 two-volume introduction to medieval and modern Jewish philosophy Moses ben Maimon: Sein Leben, seine Werke und sein Einfluss . Maimonides (1135-1204) was an Egyptian Jewis |