Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism

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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism is written by Menachem Kellner and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 190982108X (ISBN 10) and 9781909821088 (ISBN 13).

Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.