9781936235322 (hc.)

1936235323 (hc.)

9781618110893 (electronic bk.)

1618110896 (electronic bk.)

"This is a collection of papers published in English in various periodicals, proceedings and Festschrifts during the last thirty years - from the early 1980s through 2010" -- page 12.

Despite similarities in the title this book does not appear to be related to the author's Hebrew work Aḥotan ha-ḳeṭanah shel ha-ḥokhmot (Raʻananah, c2011).

"As a recently established field of Jewish thought, Jewish political philosophy has made increasingly frequent appearances in recently edited histories of Jewish philosophy. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, Jewish political philosophy gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. This volume is another manifestation of this welcomed development. Consisting of selected papers published in English over the last thirty years, Wisdom's Little Sister concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, from Sa'adiah Gaon in the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth century. These were the formative periods in the development of Jewish political philosophy, when Jewish scholars, versed in the canonical Jewish sources (biblical and rabbinic), encountered Greek political philosophy as transmitted by Muslim philosophers such as Alfarabi, Ibn Bajja and Averroes. In combining Greek, Jewish and Muslim thought, these scholars are the originators of what we now know as Jewish political philosophy."--Publisher's website.

"This is a collection of papers published in English in various periodicals, proceedings and Festchrifts during the last thirty years-- from the early 1980s through 2010 [with original bibliographic information listed]. ... The papers were slightly edited for the purpose of clarity, consistency and gender neutral terms where possible. Hebrew and Arabic terms are transliterated without diacritical marks. The bibliography was brought up-to-date, although I retained much of the older bibliography. ... I did not attempt to rewrite the papers. ... In this respect, this collection is a kind of history of the development of my research on these issues from the early years after I finished my doctoral dissertation, on which some of the early papers are based, until the present, when I am already on the verge of retirement. ... The papers have been arranged thematically, and not in the order of their appearance."--P. 12.

Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah

THE FRAMEWORK. Is there a Jewish political philosophy?: the medieval case reconsidered

Medieval and Renaissance Jewish political philosophy: an overview.

THE MIDDLE AGES. Aristotle's Politics in medieval and Renaissance Jewish political thought

The attitude toward democracy in medieval Jewish political thought

The organic theory of the state in medieval and Renaissance Jewish political thought

Jethro's advice in medieval and early modern Jewish and Christian political thought

The anonymous Hebrew translation of Aegidius' De regimine principum: an unknown chapter in medieval Jewish political philosophy.

THE RENAISSANCE. The myth of Venice in Italian Renaissance Jewish thought

Natural, human, divine: classification of the law among some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian Jewish thinkers

The Hebrew laudatio of Yohanan Alemanno: in praise of Lorenzo il Magnifico and the Florentine constitution

Simone Luzzatto on Tacitus: Apologetica and Ragione di stato

English travellers and Venetian Jewish scholars: the case of Simone Luzzatto and James Harrington

Machiavellism and anti-Machiavellism in seventeenth-century Jewish Amsterdam: from Ragione di stato to Razon de estado.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 > Political and social views.

Judaism and politics > History > To 1700.

Jews > Politics and government > To 1700.

Jewish philosophy > History > To 1700.

Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.