The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Processes of His Reasoning.

by Harry Austryn Wolfson

Paperback. Both Wear on all edges of text with stain on outer edge; Cover worn on facing and along spine; Pen writing on final page. Volume 1 stain on back facing. Else good. 440 and 420 pages

Genres: Philosophy

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Harry Austryn Wolfson was a scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States. He is best known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but was the author of an astonishing variety and quantity of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion. His greatest contribution may therefore have been in collapsing all the artificial barriers that isolated the study of Christian philosophy from Islamic philosophy from Jewish philosophy (Twersky 1975). Being the first Judaica scholar to progress through an entire career at a top-tier university (Mendes-Flohr 1998), in Wolfson is also represented the fulfillment of the goals of the 19th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.