A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

by Isaac Husik

Mr Husik presents an easy to follow narrative of the various Jewish philosophies that flourished in the Medieval Age.

Genres: Philosophy, History, Religion, Judaism, Judaica, Medieval, Jewish

428 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

1876-1939

Reviews

[Stephie Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprisingly understandable portrayal of Jewish philosophy in the medieval period.

[Zhelana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was really dense, and not very interesting at all. It talks about a different philosopher in each chapter, but most of them believe pretty much the same things. It is ultimately not usable for what I want because it doesn't talk at all about what rabbis believed or people believed. It's just a few heads in universities. And all of the content is so similar it's like reading and rereading the thing over and over again. It probably would have been better organized by topic with a few different disagreements over each topic, rather than organized by philosopher.

[Alexey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to the topic.

It was very informative though not exciting reading. I can't compare it with others surveys of the same topic, since have not read them. But as the first book in the theme, it was good enough to give a general knowledge on the major thinkers, and their ideas. The author doesn't make me read it in one sit, rather it took me more than a year. Nevertheless, it wasn't unpleasant and style is adequate to the task.

[Juliane Purves]

DNF — only finished 20%. took me so long to read because it’s very dense and dry. i may try to go back and review in the future since it has a lot of material. not easy or light reading

[MJD · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting overview of theology and philosophy in the Western world in the context of Jewish thought. I think that anyone with an interest in Western philosophy should consider reading this to complement some other Western philosophy books that tend to be overly centered on Hellenistic and/or Christian thinking.