Dialectic of Separation Judaism and Philosophy in the Work of Salomon Munk [Hardcover]

Dialectic of Separation analyzes the complex relationship between Judaism and philosophy in the thought of the nineteenth-century GermanJewish orientalist and philosopher Salomon Munk. Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, appearing here for the first time, it offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munks life and work. Munk, who emigrated from his native Glogau to Paris to pursue his studies, was to exert a major influence on the development of Islamic and Jewish studies in both France and Germany, giving a vital impetus to the debate over the nature of Jewish philosophy at a time when medieval Jewish philosophers (such as Maimonides) and their Arabic and Islamic sources were completely neglected in philosophical historiography.Drawing on both published and on unpublished sources, this volume offers the first-ever comprehensive reconstruction of Salomon Munks life and work, competently restores Munk to the pantheon of Wissenschaft scholars, and sheds fresh light on the emergence of the academic field of Jewish philosophy.Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Salomon Munk (18031867): His Life and Work 1.1. From Glogau to Berlin, 18031824: Munk, Philology, and the Science of Judaism 1.2. From Berlin to Paris, 18241828: Munk and the Development of Oriental Studies in France 1.3. A Journey to the Orient: Munk and the Damascus Affair 1.4. Back in Paris, 18411846: Francks Historical-Critical Dictionary of Philosophy 1.5. Munks Blindness 1.6. A simple grammar course: Munk at the Coll?ge de France 1.7. Munk in the Eyes of His Contemporaries: Philologist, Historian of Philosophy, and Philosopher of Religion 1.8. Munks Legacy 2. Salomon Munk and the Problem of Jewish Philosophy 2.1. Philosophy in Three Languages: Jewish Philosophy, Christian Thought, and Islamic Sources in Munks M?langes de philosophie juive et arabe 2.2. Judaism and Neoplatonism in the Mekor Hayyim: Munks Analysis of Ibn Gabirols Attempt to Reconcile Philosophylƒo