Philosophers on the Periphery of Ashkenaz

Jewish Intellectual Life and Philosophy in the Czech Lands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Officina Philosophica Hebraica Volume 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-51835-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86/4, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) had many followers among Jews living in the Mediterranean Basin, but his philosophical books were almost totally ignored by Ashkenazi Jews. Yet, the eastern periphery of Ashkenaz was an exception: in the late fourteenth century a circle of veritable philosophers emerged in the Jewish community of Prague and existed until the end of the Hussite wars (ca. 1434). This book analyses the works of the most important members of the circle, Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Avigdor Kara, and Menahem Shalem, and examines the impact of philosophy on Jewish society using Max Weber’s sociology and Marc Richir’s phenomenology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visi, Tamás

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

Tamás Visi, Ph. D. (2006) is an associate professor of Jewish Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc. He has published many articles on medieval Jewish intellectual history and co-edited Berechiah Ben Natronai Ha-Naqdan’s Works and Their Reception (Brepols, 2019).