Four Maimonides’ Psychology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Maimonides as Biblical Exegete 1
7. Philosophical Themes in Maimonides’ Sefer Ahavah 13
8. Maimonides on Joy 37
9. Maimonides’ Psychology 51
10. Baḥyā and Maimonides on the Worth of Medicine 61
11. The Ambiguity of the Imagination and the Ambivalence of Language in Maimonides and Spinoza 95
12. The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and Maimon 113
13. Persecution and the Art of Representation: Schocken’s Maimonides Anthologies of the 1930s 153
14. Maimonides in the Crucible of Zionism: Reflections on Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Negative Theology 181
15. Can We Be Maimonideans Today? 193
16. Bibliography 211
17. Contributors 225
18. Index Locorum 227
19. Subject Index 237