Thinking Impossibilities : The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein -- PART I: HISTORICAL DIALECTICS -- 1 Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences -- 2 Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? -- 3 Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) -- 4 Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler -- 5 Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- PART II: HISTORICAL ACCOMMODATIONS -- 6 Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism -- 7 Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning -- 8 History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation -- 9 Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico's Mythology to Funkenstein's Methodology -- 10 Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein -- PART III: MAKING KNOWLEDGE -- 11 Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism -- 12 Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum 'Appoint for Yourself a Teacher' -- LAST WORDS -- 13 Jewish History among the Thorns -- A Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Richly interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking Impossibilitiesis a fitting tribute to an important twentieth-century scholar.

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