Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of
scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995)
displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several
disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable
scholarly boundaries. The philosophy of history from antiquity to
modernity, medieval and early modern history of science, medieval
scholasticism, Jewish history in all of its periods - these are all
areas in which he made lasting contributions. Thinking
Impossibilities brings together Funkenstein's colleagues, friends,
and former students to engage with important aspects of his
intellectual legacy.
Funkenstein's diverse interests were bound together by common
figures of thought, especially the search for pre-modern
intellectual groundings of modern ideas and how the seeming
'impossibilities' of one historical moment might become positive
resources of conceptual construction and development in another.
The essays in this volume take up major themes in European
intellectual history, and examine them through the unique lens that
Funkenstein himself employed during his career. Of particular
interest are ways in which topics of Jewish history are engaged
with the larger field of the history of ideas in the West. Richly
interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking
Impossibilities is a fitting tribute to an important
twentieth-century scholar.
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