The matter and form of Maimonides' guide /
Author / Creator: | Stern, Josef, 1949- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. |
Description: | x, 431 p. ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has dust jacket. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9127660 |
Summary: | Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed has traditionally been read as an attempt to harmonize reason and revelation. Another, more recent interpretation takes the contradiction between philosophy and religion to be irreconcilable, and concludes that the Guide prescribes religion for the masses and philosophy for the elite. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is not the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem but the tension between human matter and form, between the body and the intellect. |
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Physical Description: | x, 431 p. ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674051607 0674051602 |