Rewriting Maimonides

Rewriting MaimonidesMaimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism has been overlooked: the formal reception of the Guide of the Perplexed through commentary. In Rewriting Maimonides, Igor H. De Souza offers a comprehensive analysis of six early philosophical commentaries, written in Italy, Spain, and France, by some of Maimonides most loyal followers. The early

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from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

Inspired by the philosophies of black consciousness and the Congress movement

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