Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: An Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein 1
6. PART I: HISTORICAL DIALECTICS
7. 1. Divine Omnipotence and First Principles: A Late Medieval Argument on the Subalternation of the Sciences 13
8. 2. Was Kepler a Secular Theologian? 34
9. 3. Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744) 63
10. 4. Religion, Theology, and the Hermetic Imagination in the Late German Enlightenment: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler 97
11. 5. Science and the Musical Imagination from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period 112
12. PART II: HISTORICAL ACCOMMODATIONS
13. 6. Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism 143
14. 7. Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides’ Historical Reasoning 167
15. 8. History and/or Memory: The Origins of the Principle of Accommodation 193
16. 9. Historical Consciousness Revisited: From Vico’s Mythology to Funkenstein’s Methodology 207
17. 10. Francesco Bianchini, Historian. In Memory of Amos Funkenstein 227
18. PART III: MAKING KNOWLEDGE
19. 11. Amos Funkenstein and the History of Scepticism 281
20. 12. Two Talmudic Understandings of the Dictum ‘Appoint for Yourself a Teacher’ 288
21. LAST WORDS
22. 13. Jewish History among the Thorns 309
23. A Bibliography of the Published Works of Amos Funkenstein 328
24. Contributors 339
25. Index 343