The Paradoxical Transmission of Tradition and Agamben's Potential Reading of the Rishonim

Comparative and Continental Philosophy 3 (2):225-242 (2011)
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This essay explores the significance of Agamben’s sparse references to medieval Jewish thinkers (that is, the Rishonim) and raises the question as to whether the modern interpretive horizon of “history” is adequate for providing an understanding of these thinkers.

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Jeffrey Bernstein
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Notes.Ido Govrin - 2023 - In Philosophical archaeology: with and beyond Agamben on philosophy, history, and art. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 121-172.

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Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy.Giorgio Agamben - 2000 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
Physics.Daniel W. Aristotle & Graham - 2018 - Hackett Publishing Company.
State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben - 2004 - University Of Chicago Press.

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