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IN this work Dr. Israel Levine, the head of the Philosophy Department, University College, Exeter, discusses the outstanding contributions to philosophy by Jewish thinkers from biblical times down to the present day. In the oldest writings of Hebrew culture as represented by the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes and the works of Philo and Maimonides, little philosophy is to be found, and it is not until the middle of the seventeenth century that Jewish philosophy begins with Spinoza, while in the nineteenth and present centuries Marx represents economic science and Bergson metaphysics. Dr. Levine comes to the conclusion that science and philosophy are not really native to the Hebrew genius, but require for their development the stimulus of alien culture and the raw material of alien contact.
Faithful Rebels:
a Study in Jewish Speculative Thought. By Dr. Israel Levine. Pp. viii+146. (London: The Soncino Press, 1936.) 6s. net.
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Faithful Rebels. Nature 140, 218 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140218d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140218d0