On the Importance of the World: Phenomenology in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed*
The Journal of Religion March 21, 2019 Martin Shuster 1 citation
Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is incredibly complex and, after millennia, still subject to controversy. In what follows I do not explicitly engage all of the well-known (and well-worn) debates surrounding that text. The aims of this essay are instead to reveal inMaimonides a sort of “phenomenology”—a term that I will clarify shortly but that at the outset should be taken to signal the...