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Chapter Four R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides: A Contemporary Mystic’s Embrace of Medieval Rationalism

In: Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Author: James A. Diamond

Page Count:: 99–128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004234062_006

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Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Series:
Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume: 17

Cover Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004234062

Publisher:: Brill

Online Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2012

Preliminary Material

Introduction Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Chapter One “Medieval” and the Politics of Nostalgia: Ideology, Scholarship, and the Creation of the Rational Jew

Chapter Two On the Possibility of a Hidden Christian Will: Methodological Pitfalls in the Study of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Chapter Three Lessing in Jerusalem: Modern Religion, Medieval Orientalism, and the Idea of Perfection

Chapter Four R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides: A Contemporary Mystic’s Embrace of Medieval Rationalism

Chapter Five On Myth, History, and the Study of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem

Chapter Six What S. Y. Agnon Taught Gershom Scholem About Jewish History

Chapter Seven Constructed and Denied: “The Talmud” from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah

Chapter Eight Escaping the Scholastic Paradigm: The Dispute Between Strauss and His Contemporaries About How to Approach Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy

Chapter Nine Justifying Philosophy and Restoring Revelation: Assessing Strauss’s Medieval Return

Chapter Ten Echo of the Otherwise: Ethics of Transcendence and the Lure of Theolatry

Index

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