Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera /
This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. "Human Language": Classifying Metaphor in Jewish Sources
- 3. "Taste and See": Imagination and Intellect
- 4. Transmission
- 5. Shem Tov ibn Falaquera and the Iberian 'Afterlife' of Maimonides' Guide
- 6. "No Share in Poetry:" The Ethics of Figurative Language
- 7. Afterword.