Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in 19th Century Germany The Guide to Religious Reform /

• Main Author: Kohler, George Y. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy ; 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Medieval philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; History, general.; Philosophy of Religion.; Medieval Philosophy.

The general subject of the book is the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same tim...

Table of Contents:

•  Introduction
• Part I: Maimonides - the Guide for  the Reform Movement in Germany
• 1: The Beginnings
• 2: The First Reform rabbis.-  3: The Rabbinical Seminaries
• 4: The Return to Philosophy
• Part II: Specific Problems in the Reception of Maimonides' Philosophy in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Germany
• 5: Divine Attributes
• 6: The Law
• 7: Maimonides and Kant
• 8: "Rambam or Maimonides" - Orthodox Reactions to the Liberal Maimonides Renaissance (1836-1936)
• Appendix
• Conclusions
• Primary German Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Sources on Maimonides' Guide
• Biblography.