Martin D. Yaffe (born 1942) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies 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 |
| 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 0-8018-5648-5
- Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn. Translated, edited, and with an interpretive essay by Martin D. Yaffe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012
- Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on the Book of Job (tr.), Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1989
- Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (tr.), Focus Philosophical Library/Hackett, 2004
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
- The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, Lexington Books, 2011
- Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman. New York NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
- Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020
- Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources, University of Toronto Press, 2021
- Laurence Berns’s The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon, with Special Attention to the Principles of Foreign Policy, Political Animal Press, 2024
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.
- ^ Green, Kenneth Hart (1999). "Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question". Modern Judaism. 19 (3): 311–317. ISSN 0276-1114.
- ^ Schall, James V. (2013). "Review of Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn". The Review of Metaphysics. 67 (1): 190–192. ISSN 0034-6632.
- ^ 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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