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Philosophic Mysticism
Studies in Rational Religion
By: David R. Blumenthal
"Can a philosopher be a mystic?" Classical scholarship on medieval
Jewish thought answered this question, with few exceptions, in the
negative. This book, a collection of essays written over a forty-year
period by David R. Blumenthal, offers a forceful positive answer -
that philosophy was the penultimate step to post-philosophic,
post-intellectual, post-cognitive religious experience and,
conversely, that philosophic mystical experience was quintessentially
philosophic in its preliminary stages and in its tone and quality.
Calling on linguistic and cultural evidence, Blumenthal argues that
even Maimonides, the towering figure of medieval Jewish philosophy,
was a philosophic mystic.
The argument presented in this book, especially its application to
Maimonides, should change the way scholars think about both medieval
philosophy and mysticism.
David R. Blumenthal is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic
Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. Blumenthal wrote his
thesis with the late Georges Vajda of the Sorbonne, and then began
his career by publishing the first theological works in English from
post-Maimonidean Yemen. He broadened this work in a series of essays,
in which he developed and applied the concept of philosophic
mysticism to Maimonides. This book culminates that work.
276 pp. English. Hardcover. 2006.
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