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Avicenna by Lenn E. Goodman 9780801472541
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the... -
Islamic Humanism by Lenn E. Goodman 9780195135800
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $150.68This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic,... -
Islamic Humanism by Lenn E. Goodman 9780195189148
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $58.97This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic,... -
The Holy One of Israel by Lenn E. Goodman 9780190698478
RRP: $215.25Booksplease Price: $196.79Holy, holy, holy! The Lord of hosts! The fill of all the earth is His glory. In these few ecstatic words, the prophet Isaiah captured the core of Jewish thinking about humanity, nature, and God... -
Aristotle's Politics Today by Lenn E. Goodman 9780791472279
RRP: $152.25Booksplease Price: $146.31Examines the implications of Aristotle's political thought for contemporary political theory.According to Aristotle, man's essential sociality implies a distinctive conception of politics, one in... -
Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78Judaism, as a religion and a way of life, has guided millions of lives and profoundly influenced its younger sisters, Christianity and Islam, as well as contributing major themes and norms to the... -
Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself by Lenn E. Goodman 9780195328820
Booksplease Price: $134.40In this book, Lenn E. Goodman writes about the commandment to "love thy neighbor as thyself" from the standpoint of Judaism, a topic and perspective that have not often been joined before. Goodman... -
Creation and Evolution Lenn E. Goodman (Vanderbilt University, USA) 9780415913812
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Can religion survive Darwinism? Do scientists entering the lab or heading for the field have to bracket, or reject outright, all religious commitments and convictions? Trenchantly laying out the... -
Coming to Mind: The Soul and Its Body Lenn E. Goodman 9780226061061
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $87.53How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the... -
Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere by Lenn E. Goodman 9781107658059
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.90How can we, as people and communities with different religions and cultures, live together with integrity? Does tolerance require us to deny our deep differences or give up all claims to truth, to... -
Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere by Lenn E. Goodman 9781107052130
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72How can we, as people and communities with different religions and cultures, live together with integrity? Does tolerance require us to deny our deep differences or give up all claims to truth, to... -
God and Truth: An Essay on Reason and Religious Ideas Lenn E. Goodman 9781108472142
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $153.01Is God a necessary being? Infinite yet simple? Creator of a world that seems equally able to explain itself? In this volume, prize-winning philosopher Lenn Goodman probes key religious questions... -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $36.71The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial... -
God and Truth: An Essay on Reason and Religious Ideas Lenn E. Goodman 9781108459044
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $48.13Is God a necessary being? Infinite yet simple? Creator of a world that seems equally able to explain itself? In this volume, prize-winning philosopher Lenn Goodman probes key religious questions... -
The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn by Lenn E. Goodman 9780199642519
Booksplease Price: $77.70This is a new English translation of a classic of medieval Islamic learning, which illuminates the intellectual debates of its age and speaks vividly to the concerns of our own. It is the most famous... -
Jewish & Islamic Philosophy by Goodman 9780813527604
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $121.63About the AuthorLenn E. Goodman is an American philosopher. His philosophy, particularly his constructive work, draws from classical and medieval sources as well as religious texts. Goodman is... -
A Guide to TheGuide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork by Lenn Goodman 9781503637474
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late... -
A Guide to TheGuide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork by Lenn Goodman 9781503629530
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $142.84In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late... -
Jewish Philosophy: Perspectives and Retrospectives by Raphael Jospe 9781618111609
Booksplease Price: $186.31In a lecture title "Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary," Paul Mendes-Flohr observed that "Jewish philosophers seem to be a dying breed." However tongue in cheek the statement may have... -
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation Moses Maimonides 9781503645912
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential... -
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation by Moses Maimonides 9780804787383
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.35A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential... -
Aristotle's Politics: Living Well and Living Together by Eugene Garver 9780226284026
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33"Man is a political animal", Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the "Politics". In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the... -
Maimonides and His Heritage by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 9780791476567
Booksplease Price: $54.47This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138-1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over... -
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy by Heidi M. Ravven 9780791453100
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $49.16Explores Jewish aspects of Spinoza's philosophy from a wide variety of perspectives.Breaking new ground in the study of Spinoza's philosophy, the essays in this volume explore the extent to which... -
Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 9781107094918
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Spinoza's heritage has been occluded by his incorporation into the single, western, philosophical canon formed and enforced by theologico-political condemnation, and his heritage is further occluded... -
The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy by Adrienne M. Martin 9780367659639
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $95.61The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that... -
Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by David Gillis 9781906764067
Booksplease Price: $121.02In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. Through this symbolic form, Maimonides presents the... -
Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah by David Gillis
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $59.87In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. Through this symbolic form, Maimonides presents the... -
Judaism & Ecology - Created World & Revealed Word by Hava Tirosh-Samuelso 9780945454366
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $50.82Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it... -
Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith by Francis J. Beckwith 9781107533059
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.95Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical... -
Zionism and Judaism: A New Theory by David Novak 9781107492714
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $58.15Why should anyone be a Zionist, a supporter of a Jewish state in the land of Israel? Why should there be a Jewish state in the land of Israel? This book seeks to provide a philosophical answer to... -
Solidarity in a Secular Age: From Political Theology to Jewish Philosophy by Charles H.T. Lesch 9780197583791
RRP: $155.40Booksplease Price: $142.80Liberal democracies need solidarity. They need citizens who sacrifice for their country, rally for justice, and help their neighbors. Yet according to critics of liberalism like Carl Schmitt, the... -
God-Talk: The Heart of Judaism by David Novak 9781538187135
Booksplease Price: $119.01David Novak, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God. What does the Torah say about...