Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle’s Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy

Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle’s Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1929. First edition. Large 8vo. xvi, (2), 759pp. Index. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. “Harvard Semitic Series Volume VI” – Text and translation of the twenty-five propositions of Book I of Hasdai Crescas’ “Or Adonai” [Hebrew with English translation]: p.[128]-315. Crescas was an important early 15th century Spanish Jewish thinker. His rejection of Aristotle is generally seen as part of a general trend against Maimonides and the rationalist tradition of Jewish thought in this period. This book served as an important piece of Harry Wolfson’s larger project of crafting an intellectual history of medieval thought as an attempt to reconcile Greek and biblical thought. Text in English and Hebrew. Binding with minor wear along edges, small white smudge on back cover. Spine very lightly sunned. Harvard University bookplate on inside front cover. Block lightly age-toned. near fine -. Hardcover. (54142) $75