As lucidly written and intellectually stimulating as all the author's earlier books, this volume is a fitting capstone to a notable career.
Harry Wolfson spent sixty-six years at Harvard University, as undergraduate, graduate student, teacher, and professor emeritus. From 1925 until his retirement in 1958 he was Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard. He died in September 1974 at the age of 86.
The Philosophy of the Kalam is the last major work of one of the great scholars of our age. Harry Wolfson was renowned throughout the world for the depth, scope, and wisdom of his monumental volumes on the structure and growth ofphilosophic systems from Plato to Spinoza. It was not only his extraordinary erudition that commanded respect, his awesome mastery of all the primary sources, Greek, Christian, Judaic, and Muslim; it was also his penetrating insight and his original and groundbreaking interpretations.
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As lucidly written and intellectually stimulating as all the author's earlier books, this volume is a fitting capstone to a notable career.
Harry Wolfson spent sixty-six years at Harvard University, as undergraduate, graduate student, teacher, and professor emeritus. From 1925 until his retirement in 1958 he was Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard. He died in September 1974 at the age of 86.
The Philosophy of the Kalam is the last major work of one of the great scholars of our age. Harry Wolfson was renowned throughout the world for the depth, scope, and wisdom of his monumental volumes on the structure and growth ofphilosophic systems from Plato to Spinoza. It was not only his extraordinary erudition that commanded respect, his awesome mastery of all the primary sources, Greek, Christian, Judaic, and Muslim; it was also his penetrating insight and his original and groundbreaking interpretations.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 1976 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1976 |
Authors | Harry Austryn Wolfson |
Dimensions | 222 x 152 x 47mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 810 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-66580-4 |
Barcode | 9780674665804 |
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LSN | 0-674-66580-5 |