Dialectic of Separation: Judaism and Philosophy in the Work of Salomon Munk (Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life Series) - Hardcover

Chiara Adorisio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618116533 ISBN 13: 9781618116536

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2017

Synopsis

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century German–Jewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk. Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, appearing here for the first time, it offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munk’s life and work. Munk, who emigrated from his native Glogau to Paris to pursue his studies, was to exert a major influence on the development of Islamic and Jewish studies in both France and Germany, giving a vital impetus to the debate over the nature of Jewish philosophy at a time when medieval Jewish philosophers (such as Maimonides) and their Arabic and Islamic sources were completely neglected in philosophical historiography.

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About the Author

Chiara Adorisio is currently assistant professor of philosophical anthropology at Sapienza University, Rome. She researched and taught in Germany and in Israel, and, in 2011, she won the Rita Levi Montalcini Program of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. Her publications include Leo Strauss, lettore di Hermann Cohen: dalla filosofia moderna al ritorno agli antichi (La Giuntina, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618116533
• ISBN 13: 9781618116536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226