Martin D. Yaffe (born 1942) is a Canadian American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is known for his works on the Jewish thought and political philosophy.[1][2][3][4][5]
Martin Yaffe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 (age 83–84) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Claremont Graduate University (PhD), University of Toronto (BA) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Institutions | University of North Texas (1968-) |
Main interests | Jewish thought, political philosophy |
Books
edit- Shylock and the Jewish Question. Johns Hopkins University Press: 1997. ISBN 0801856485
- Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn. Translated, edited, and with an interpretive essay by Martin D. Yaffe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN 9780226922782, 0226922782
- Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on the Book of Job (tr.), Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 1555402925, 9781555402921
- Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (tr.), Focus Philosophical Library/Hackett, 2004. ISBN 9781585101122, 9781585100859
Edited
edit- Judaism and environmental ethics: a reader, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. ISBN 0-7391-0117-X
- Emil Fackenheim—Philosopher, Theologian, Jew: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Sharon Portnoff, Jim Diamond, and Martin Yaffe, Brill 2008. ISBN 9789047429340, 9789004157675
- The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, Lexington Books, 2011. ISBN 9780739150467
- Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman. New York NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. ISBN 1137374233, 9781137374233
- Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780271086156, 9780271086163
- Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources, University of Toronto Press, 2021. ISBN 1487529643, 9781487529642
- Laurence Berns’s The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon, with Special Attention to the Principles of Foreign Policy, Political Animal Press, 2024. ISBN 1895131693, 9781895131697
References
edit- ↑ Halio, Jay L. (2000). "Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question". Shakespeare Quarterly. 51 (2): 258–260. doi:10.2307/2902147. ISSN 0037-3222. JSTOR 2902147.
- ↑ Green, Kenneth Hart (1999). "Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question". Modern Judaism. 19 (3): 311–317. doi:10.1093/mj/19.3.311. ISSN 0276-1114. JSTOR 1396680.
- ↑ Schall, James V. (2013). "Review of Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn". The Review of Metaphysics. 67 (1): 190–192. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 23598028.
- ↑ Baumann, Fred (2015). "Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn, translated and edited by Martin D. Yaffe". Interpretation. 41 (3): 349–358.
- ↑ Quinn, Timothy S. (3 March 2015). "Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman". International Philosophical Quarterly. 55 (1): 123–127. doi:10.5840/ipq20155513.
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