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Harvard Semitic Series 6

Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle

Problems of Aristotle’s Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy

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$65.00 • £54.95 • €60.00

ISBN 9780674864214

Publication Date: 01/01/1971

759 pages

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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.

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