Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Expanding the Canon of Jewish Philosophy: Toward an Appreciation of Genre
2. Judah Halevi: The Dialogue of Subversion
3. Shem Tov ibn Falaquera: Dialogues of Reconciliation and Dissemination
4. Isaac Polleqar: The Dialogue of Disputation
5. Judah Abravanel: The Dialogue of Desire
6. Moses Mendelssohn: The Dialogue of Fragility
Epilogue: From Dialogue to Dialogic
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

Aaron W. Hughes is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is author of The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (IUP, 2004).

Reviews

"Represents an important new trend in Jewish philosophy, and moves the field one step closer to a complete social, cultural, and literary history." James Robinson, University of Chicago Divinity School