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Edited by: Bill Rebiger

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Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editorial Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I: Articles
Epoché as the Erotic Conversion of One into Two Rachel Aumiller Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Some Blunt Instruments of Dogmatic Logic: Sextus Empiricus’ Sceptical Attack Emidio Spinelli Publicly Available Download PDF	15
In antiquam litem relabimur. Sceptical Hints in Petrarch’s Secretum Teresa Caligiure Publicly Available Download PDF	29
Sceptical Strategies in Simone Luzzatto’s Presentation of the Kabbalists in his Discorso Bill Rebiger Publicly Available Download PDF	51
The Italian Academies and Rabbi Simone Luzzatto’s Socrate: the Freedom of the Ingenium and the Soul Michela Torbidoni Publicly Available Download PDF	71
Jewish Thought vs. Lutheran Aristotelism: Johann Frischmuth (1619–1687) and Jewish Scepticism Guido Bartolucci Publicly Available Download PDF	95
Negotiating the Principle of (Non)-Contradiction: Johann Frischmuth on the Rabbinic Dialectic Discussion Giuseppe Veltri Publicly Available Download PDF	107
Silence, Translation, and Grammatical Therapy: Some Features of Linguistic Scepticism in the Thought of Rosenzweig and Wittgenstein Libera Pisano Publicly Available Download PDF	121
Was Leo Strauss a Zetetic Political Philosopher? Harald Bluhm Publicly Available Download PDF	145
Jewish Faith and Scepticism—The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz Roi Benbassat Publicly Available Download PDF	161
Part II: Lectures
What is Jewish Philosophy? A View from the Middle Ages Josef Stern Publicly Available Download PDF	185
WORKSHOP: Jewish-Christian Polemics in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period Daniel J. Lasker, Lawrence Kaplan, Racheli Haliva, Michael Engel and Paolo L. Bernardini Publicly Available Download PDF	205
Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah Jonathan Garb Publicly Available Download PDF	239
Lingua Adamica and Philology: The Rise and Destruction of a Concept Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann Publicly Available Download PDF	247
Part III: Reports
Activities and Events Publicly Available Download PDF	269
Report on the Sceptical Atelier on Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte (6–9 February, 2017) Stephan Schmid and Yitzhak Melamed Publicly Available Download PDF	293
Report on the Sceptical Atelier on Simone Luzzatto’s Socrates: Reading the Forthcoming First English Translation (22–24 May, 2017) Michela Torbidoni Publicly Available Download PDF	299
Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism Silke Schaeper Publicly Available Download PDF	303

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