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portada Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein (Ucla Clark Memorial Library)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2008
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Weight
2
ISBN
0802097952
ISBN13
9780802097958
Edition No.
1

Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein (Ucla Clark Memorial Library)

Robert S. (Edt) Westman (Author) · University Of Toronto Press · Hardcover

Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein (Ucla Clark Memorial Library) - Robert S. (Edt) Westman

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Synopsis "Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein (Ucla Clark Memorial Library)"

Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable scholarly boundaries. The philosophy of history from antiquity to modernity, medieval and early modern history of science, medieval scholasticism, Jewish history in all of its periods - these are all areas in which he made lasting contributions. Thinking Impossibilities brings together Funkenstein's colleagues, friends, and former students to engage with important aspects of his intellectual legacy. Funkenstein's diverse interests were bound together by common figures of thought, especially the search for pre-modern intellectual groundings of modern ideas and how the seeming 'impossibilities' of one historical moment might become positive resources of conceptual construction and development in another. The essays in this volume take up major themes in European intellectual history, and examine them through the unique lens that Funkenstein himself employed during his career. Of particular interest are ways in which topics of Jewish history are engaged with the larger field of the history of ideas in the West. Richly interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking Impossibilities is a fitting tribute to an important twentieth-century scholar.

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