Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle

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Hesdai Crescas was a true representative of the interpretation of the Arabic and Hebrew philosophic traditions. This volume reprints Harry Austryn Wolfson’s now classic study of Crescas’ Or Adonai, a historical and critical investigation of the main problems of Aristotle’s Physics and De Caelo.