Our friends at the Foundation for Constitutional Government have added Judah Halevi to their Great Thinkers project. A rabbi, poet, and political philosopher, Judah Halevi is the author of a classic work on Jewish thought and political ideas, The Kuzari. Like all their Great Thinkers sites, the Halevi site has an exhaustive list of translated works by Halevi, a detailed biography, a thematic introduction, and selections of the best commentary on his life and thought. The site reveals how Halevi’s work is both a vital source for understanding Judaism as well as for thinking through the relation of religion and politics to philosophy, from the medieval period down to our own day.
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