Chapter 2 Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: Toward a Biography of a Popular Author and Aggressive Book Dealer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Chapter 1 The Hague Dialogues 1
6. Chapter 2 Pinḥas Elijah ben Meir Hurwitz: Toward a Biography of a Popular Author and Aggressive Book Dealer 18
7. Chapter 3 Why Should a Kabbalist Care about the Natural World? The Meaning of Scientific Knowledge for Pinḥas Hurwitz 40
8. Chapter 4 Judaism and Metaphysics: Hurwitz’s Epistemological and Historical Critique of Philosophy 57
9. Chapter 5 The Moral Cosmopolitanism of Pinḥas Hurwitz: Some Initial Conjectures 75
10. Chapter 6 The Readers of Sefer ha-Brit 90
11. Epilogue 115
12. Appendix 1 Editions of Sefer ha-Brit 123
13. Appendix 2 Hurwitz’s Instructions on Printing His Book, from His Second Introduction 130
14. Appendix 3 The Contents of Sefer ha-Brit 135
15. Notes 137
16. Index 167