Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is also a faculty member of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. His previous publications include Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 2001), Rembrandt's Jews (2003), Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction (Cambridge, 2006), Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy (co-edited with T. M. Rudavsky, Cambridge, 2009) and A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (2011).

Introduction Steven Nadler; 1. Mortality of the soul from Alexander of Aphrodisias to Spinoza Jacob Adler; 2. Spinoza and the determinist tradition in medieval Jewish philosophy Charles Manekin; 3. The science of scripture: Abraham Ibn Ezra and Spinoza on biblical hermeneutics T. M. Rudavsky; 4. Spinoza's rejection of Maimonideanism Steven Frankel; 5. Ishq, Hesheq, and Amor Dei Intellectualis Warren Zev Harvey; 6. Monotheism at bay: the gods of Maimonides and Spinoza Kenneth Seeskin; 7. Moral agency without free will: Spinoza's naturalizing of moral psychology in a Maimonidean key Heidi Ravven; 8. Virtue, reason, and moral luck: Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza Steven Nadler; 9. 'Something of it remains': Spinoza and Gersonides on intellectual eternity Julie R. Klein; 10. Hasdai Crescas and Spinoza on actual infinity and the infinity of God's attributes Yitzhak Y. Melamed.