Overview

Full Product Details

9781350074408

Table of Contents

Reviews

Michael Engel makes a substantial contribution to previous scholarship on the treatise, mastering for the first time its linguistic difficulties, its philosophical complexity and its reliance on Latin scholasticism and Hebrew sources. With an impressively lucid and penetrating analysis, Engel skillfully guides his readers through intricate issues of intellect theory without losing the thread of the argument. -- Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Professor of Philosophy, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany With admirable clarity, Michael Engel provides an access key to understanding the Two Investigations on the Intellect, one of the most important works by Elijah Del Medigo, no longer extant in Latin, but still preserved in Hebrew. Engel's book fills a significant gap in the history of Renaissance Philosophy, and will stimulate further research on this long-overlooked figure, whose own fame has been obscured by his patron Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. -- Giovanni Licata, Short-Term Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK Dr Engel's study constitutes an important contribution to the study of Averroes both in the Hebrew and in the Latin tradition. Examining an unpublished text and focusing on the intellectual context in which Del Medigo worked, it greatly enhances our knowledge of this author, since scholarly attention has hitherto mainly focused on Del Medigo's more popular treatise on the relation between religion and philosophy Behinat ha-Dat ('The Examination of Religion'). This book presents and explains the often quite involved philosophical debates of the Renaissance in a lucid manner. -- Resianne Fontaine, Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Engel shows that Del Medigo, though an Averroist, is distinctive in his Averroism, because of his unique access to him through both the Jewish and the Latin tradition. As a result, he makes us rethink, not just Paduan Aristotelianism, but the whole relationship between Jewish and Christian philosophers in the later Middle Ages. -- John Marenbon, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK

Michael Engel makes a substantial contribution to previous scholarship on the treatise, mastering for the first time its linguistic difficulties, its philosophical complexity and its reliance on Latin scholasticism and Hebrew sources. With an impressively lucid and penetrating analysis, Engel skillfully guides his readers through intricate issues of intellect theory without losing the thread of the argument. -- Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Professor of Philosophy, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany With admirable clarity, Michael Engel provides an access key to understanding the Two Investigations on the Intellect, one of the most important works by Elijah Del Medigo, no longer extant in Latin, but still preserved in Hebrew. Engel's book fills a significant gap in the history of Renaissance Philosophy, and will stimulate further research on this long-overlooked figure, whose own fame has been obscured by his patron Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. -- Giovanni Licata, Short-Term Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK Dr Engel's study constitutes an important contribution to the study of Averroes both in the Hebrew and in the Latin tradition. Examining an unpublished text and focusing on the intellectual context in which Del Medigo worked, it greatly enhances our knowledge of this author, since scholarly attention has hitherto mainly focused on Del Medigo's more popular treatise on the relation between religion and philosophy Behinat ha-Dat (`The Examination of Religion'). This book presents and explains the often quite involved philosophical debates of the Renaissance in a lucid manner. -- Resianne Fontaine, Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Engel shows that Del Medigo, though an Averroist, is distinctive in his Averroism, because of his unique access to him through both the Jewish and the Latin tradition. As a result, he makes us rethink, not just Paduan Aristotelianism, but the whole relationship between Jewish and Christian philosophers in the later Middle Ages. -- John Marenbon, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK

Author Information

Michael Engel is a Research Associate at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available