{"product_id":"devotional-intelligence-and-jewish-religious-thinking-9781498590617","title":"Devotional Intelligence and Jewish Religious","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis groundbreaking neo-Maimonidean work establishes, on independently philosophical grounds, the intellectual warrant of Jewish religious thinking as devotional intelligence. It demonstrates the purchase and intellectual authority of such thinking by appeal to two dialectically interrelated principles: on the one hand, the metaphysical principle that knowing is of being; and, on the other, sacral attunement, a normative principle. Part I distinguishes this study from leading work in contemporary philosophy of Judaism. It  introduces the game-changing bid to privilege intelligence in the onto-epistemological Aristotelian sense, over epistemologically orchestrated, post-Enlightenment reason when it comes to assessing the intellectual soundness of religious thinking. Part II distills contemporary elements of Aristotle's onto-epistemological psychology of intelligence that Maimonides incorporated in his philosophy of Jewish religious thinking. Further, it finds in Hegel a bridge between M\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillip Stambovsky’s neo-Maimonidean book is an intriguing and original attempt to rethink the notions of intelligence and the intelligible within the context of continental philosophy of religion. -- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Professor of Philosophy, Charlotte Bloomberg Chair in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction   Part I  Jewish Philosophy and the Idea of a Philosophical Science of Devotional Intelligence  Chapter 1 Philosophy of Judaism and the Idea of a “Science of Knowing” Dedicated to Jewish  Religious Thinking  Chapter 2 Devotional Intelligence as the Focus of an Essay in the Science of Knowing   Part II Intelligence and Maimonidean Religious Thinking: That Knowing is of Being  Chapter 3 Maimonides, Intelligence and Judgment in Religious Thinking  Chapter 4 Intelligence in Maimonides’ Ontotheology and in Aristotle’s De anima: Tracing and \t Retrieving the Onto-Epistemological Core of Devotional Intelligence  Chapter 5 G. W. F. Hegel’s Psychology of Intelligence as a Resource for a Modern Maimonidean \tAppendix I: Hegel’s Conception of Intuition and Devotional Judgment \tAppendix II: Prophetic Intuition  Part III Devotion as Sacral Attunement: Meaning and the Factor of the Transcendent   Chapter 6 Fundamental Attunement, the Religious Act, and the Onto-Epistemology of the Sacred  Chapter 7 The Shared Warrant of Sacrally Attuned and Scientific Judgment: Meaning and the Factor   of the Transcendent   Part IV Application and Amplifications:  The Intellectual Warrant of Religious Thinking of the Divine Names    Chapter 8 Jewish Religious Thinking that Identifies the Attributive Divine Names with the Tetragrammaton  Conclusion   Bibliography  Index  About the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040858243415,"sku":"9781498590617","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498590617.jpg?v=1750948081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/devotional-intelligence-and-jewish-religious-thinking-9781498590617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}