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Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel: Defender of the Faith
Author(s): Seymour Feldman (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24 Oct. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 0700715908
- ISBN-13: 9780700715909
Book Description
The expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his co-religionists. In their Italian exile his son Judah too recognized that Jews were now living in a new cultural world, but he forged a different road for Jews to pursue in their entry into the culture of the Renaissance. This book presents a picture of one family facing the challenges of a new era in Jewish history.
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About the Author
Seymour Feldman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rutgers University.
