Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

A provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy.

This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.

Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.

Examines the German and Jewish sources of Strauss's thought and the extent to which his philosophy can shed light on the crisis of liberal democracy.

Compelling account of Strauss's mature Maimonidean writings.

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.

Examines the Jewish philosopher’s influence on theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, and his impact on later thinkers.

An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews’ destiny in modern politics.

Examines the early works of German-Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973).

Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.

Illustrates Plato’s theory of the philosopher-king in the context of medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought.

Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.

Presents the early published writings of the distinguished political philosopher Leo Strauss, available here for the first time in English. “Zank places at the reader’s disposal the young Strauss’s passionate advocacy of political Zionism and his early confrontations with Spinoza, consideration of whom helped lead Strauss to formulate his teaching on ‘the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns.’” — National Review

Explores Jewish aspects of Spinoza's philosophy from a wide variety of perspectives.

Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.

A selection of his more important writings.

A selection of his more important writings.

A selection of his more important writings.

Reviews the potentially complementary albeit sharp differences between two important contemporary Jewish philosophers.

A revealing study of this important medieval Jewish poet and his relation to Islamic thought.

Through translation and commentary, this book presents the final visionary statements of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

This major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.

Examines Maimonides' political thought in light of his medieval Aristotelian and Jewish sources.

Uncovers the underlying structures of Martin Buber's thought across his diverse writings.

Explores central questions in the history and theory of Jewish ethics, namely, the relationship between ethics and law, the relationship between ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic.

A rigorous analysis of Maimonides' and Nahmanides' explanations of the Mosaic commandments that challenges received notions of the relation between these two seminal thinkers.

Identifies and examines the central insights of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas concerning the religious dimensions of the relationships between persons and extends these insights in order to explore the relevance of religious language to speak of post-Holocaust Jewish life, the critique of the tradition by feminist Jewish philosophers and theologians, and the challenges of religious pluralism.

This book relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development.

This is a careful examination of the doctrine of Jewish chosenness in the light of Gersonides's thought on providential suffering and on inherited providence. Gersonides is one of the most interesting and important philosophers of the later Jewish Middle Ages.

A collection of essays that examines the culture, politics, and social structure of Hasidic Jewish life.

The first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss.

Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People explores Maimonides' philosophical psychology, his ethics, his views on prophecy, providence, and immortality, his understanding of the place of gentiles in ...

Steven Schwarzschild—rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher—is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking ...

Clearly written, historically sophisticated, Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age presents a running dialogue between a rationalist understanding of religion and its many critics, ranging from Descartes ...