Kenneth Seeskin
American philosopher
Kenneth Seeskin (born 1947) is an American philosopher and Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University. He is known for his works on Jewish philosophy.
Seeskin won the Koret Jewish Book Award for his book Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides in 2001.
Books
The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Maimonides on the Origin of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, 2000
Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age, SUNY Press, 1990
Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed, Behrman House, 1991
Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible, University of Nebraska Press, 2016
References
External links
"Kenneth Seeskin". Northwestern University.
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