Menachem M. Kellner
Subtitle: Jewish universalism
By: edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes
Series: Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers -- volume 12
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789004298279; 9789004298293; 9789004298286
Subjects: Universalism; Judaism and philosophy; Jewish philosophy
Description: "Menachem M. Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides' rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heresy and the nature of faith in Medieval Jewish philosophy / Menachem M. Kellner; title: Maimonides on the science of the Mishneh Torah: provisional or permanent? / Menachem M. Kellner; title: Maimonides' "True religion": for Jews or all humanity? / Menachem M. Kellner; title: We are not alone / Menachem M. Kellner; title: Interview with Menachem M. Kellner / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.