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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Seeskin is an American philosopher and Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University. He is known for his works on Jewish philosophy. Seeskin won the Koret Jewish Book Award for his book Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides in 2001.
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- Dialogue and discovery : a study in Socratic method (1989) (82)
- Dialogue and discovery (1986) (49)
- The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (2005) (25)
- Maimonides’ Moral Theory (2005) (25)
- Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides (2000) (25)
- Sanctity and silence: The religious significance of Maimonides' negative theology (2002) (21)
- Jewish philosophy in the 1980's (1991) (20)
- Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe (2010) (19)
- Jewish philosophy in a secular age (1990) (17)
- The God of the Philosophers (2006) (17)
- Thinking about the Torah (2016) (15)
- The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (2010) (12)
- Is the Apology of Socrates a Parody? (2011) (12)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World (2005) (11)
- The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman (1984) (11)
- Plato and the origin of mental health. (2008) (8)
- VIastos on Elenchus and Mathematics (1993) (7)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy (2001) (6)
- Maimonides’ Philosophy of Science (2005) (6)
- The Guide and Maimonides’ Philosophical Sources (2005) (6)
- Maimonides’ Political Philosophy (2005) (6)
- Job and the Problem of Evil (2011) (6)
- Socratic Philosophy and the Dialogue Form (2011) (6)
- Maimonides: Life and Thought (2014) (6)
- Never Speculate, Never Explain: The State of Contemporary Philosophy (1979) (5)
- What philosophy can and cannot say about evil (1988) (5)
- Maimonides' Sense of History (2004) (5)
- Metaphysics and its transcendence (2005) (4)
- Jewish Messianic Thoughts in an Age of Despair (2012) (4)
- The Rabbinic Movement (2010) (4)
- The Perfection of God and the Presence of Evil (1982) (4)
- Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed (1996) (4)
- Many-Valued Logic and Future Contingencies (1971) (3)
- Modern Jewish Philosophy (2005) (3)
- Holiness as an Ethical Ideal (1996) (3)
- The Reality of Radical Evil (1980) (3)
- Ethics, Authority, and Autonomy (2007) (3)
- From Maimonides to Spinoza: Three Versions of an Intellectual Transition (2017) (3)
- No Other Gods: The Modern Struggle Against Idolatry (1995) (3)
- Modern Jewish Thought (2010) (2)
- Is Existence a Perfection?—A Case Study In the Philosophy of Leibniz (1978) (2)
- Kenneth Seeskin replies: (2011) (2)
- COURAGE AND KNOWLEDGE: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE SOCRATIC PARADOX (1976) (2)
- Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma (1988) (2)
- Some Remarks on Truth and Bivalence (1974) (2)
- Maimonides and the idea of a deflationary messiah (2014) (1)
- A plea for transcendence (2014) (1)
- Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (review) (2011) (1)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: The problem of autonomy (2001) (1)
- Jews and Judaism in the United States (2010) (1)
- Meno 86c-89a: A Mathematical Image of Philosophic Inquiry (1987) (1)
- Maimonides' appropriation of Aristotle's ethics (2012) (1)
- The Concept of Freedom in Judaism (2019) (1)
- Jewish Life in Western Christendom (2010) (1)
- Maimonides on Creation (2012) (1)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Contents (2005) (1)
- Lang, "Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide" (1992) (1)
- Recent Work on Spinoza (2008) (1)
- No one can see my face and live (2017) (1)
- THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO KEYNES (2006) (1)
- The Jewish Experience in the Muslim World (2010) (1)
- Poverty and Sincerity in the Apology: A Reply to Lewis (2011) (1)
- Jewish Messianic Thoughts in an Age of Despair: History and Irrationality (2012) (1)
- Maimonides--A Guide for Posterity (2005) (1)
- Strolling with Maimonides on the Via Negativa (2013) (1)
- What the Hebrew Bible Can/Cannot Teaching Us about God (2016) (1)
- Platonism, Mysticism, and Madness (1976) (1)
- FORMALIZATION IN PLATONIC SCHOLARSHIP (1978) (1)
- Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato's Dialogues (review) (2000) (1)
- The Founding of Modern Israel and the Arab–Israeli Conflict (2010) (1)
- Thinking about the Prophets (2020) (0)
- Can There Be a Positive Theology? (2020) (0)
- Review of Lectures and Essays, by Jacob Klein (1989) (0)
- The height of modernity: Kant and Cohen (2001) (0)
- Plato and Heidegger: In Search of Selfhood (review) (2008) (0)
- Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief. Ralph Lerner (2002) (0)
- Leibniz and transcendental idealism (1978) (0)
- Messianism: A Brief History of a Complicated Idea (2013) (0)
- Creation in the Timaeus (2005) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: From the sage to the philosopher (2001) (0)
- Saving the Phenomena in Medieval Astronomy (2011) (0)
- Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals (2001) (0)
- Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy by Carlos Fraenkel (review) (2014) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: Modernity under fire: Buber and Levinas (2001) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Introduction (2005) (0)
- Telling the Artist from the Art (1990) (0)
- Miracles in Jewish Philosophy (2011) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: From the prophet to the sage (2001) (0)
- Maimonides and Neo-Platonism (1977) (0)
- Divinity and contingency: A historical perspective (2012) (0)
- THE RATIONAL THEOLOGY OF STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD (1992) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Aftermath and Conclusion (2005) (0)
- Moses Maimonides (2018) (0)
- Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Guide by Alfred L. Ivry (review) (2017) (0)
- Genuine appeals to conscience (1978) (0)
- Is There a Jewish Philosophy?: Rethinking Fundamentals (review) (2001) (0)
- “Books that Have Shaped the Historiography of Philosophy”: A Note from the Editor (2014) (0)
- Maimonidean Studies ; 5 (2008) (0)
- Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible (2016) (0)
- Speedily in Our Time (2017) (0)
- Kenneth Hart Green. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 224 pp. (2014) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Aristotle and the Arguments for Eternity (2005) (0)
- Review of: J. Diamond, Jewish Theology Unbound (2019) (0)
- Plotinus and Metaphysical Causation (2005) (0)
- History and Irrationality (2012) (0)
- Review of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics by Hippocrates G. Apostle (1983) (0)
- Plato's Parmenides: The Conversion of the Soul (review) (2011) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: Preface (2001) (0)
- Review of Philosopher Kings by C.D.C. Reeve (1992) (0)
- Moses ben Maimon (2006) (0)
- Monotheism at bay: The gods of Maimonides and Spinoza (2014) (0)
- The Comedy of the Gods in the Iliad (2011) (0)
- Review of Evil and the Morality of God, by R. Schulweis (1986) (0)
- Plato. J. C. B. GOSLING. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. viii, 319 p. $16.50. (1975) (0)
- Covenant and Social Contract: Classical Judaism and Classical Liberalism (2019) (0)
- Maimonides’ Conception of Philosophy (1996) (0)
- Internalism: The Messiah Within (2012) (0)
- Books Received (1958) (0)
- Menachem Kellner. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism . Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. xix, 343 pp. (2008) (0)
- Musings on the Meno, A New Translation with Commentary (1983) (0)
- The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation (review) (2008) (0)
- Book Review:The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology. Robert Merrihew Adams (1988) (0)
- Aspects of Israeli Society (2010) (0)
- Jewish Messianic Thoughts in an Age of Despair: Messianism and Mythology (2012) (0)
- Reason as a Paradigm in Jewish Philosophy (2012) (0)
- REVIEWS-Maimonides on the Origin of the World (2007) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: Covenant and consent in the Bible (2001) (0)
- Monotheism as Skepticism. (2014) (0)
- Review of Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism by Aaron W Hughes (2014) (0)
- The rise of modernity: Spinoza and Mendelssohn (2001) (0)
- The concept of participation in Plato's later dialogues (1972) (0)
- The Centrality of Talmud (2010) (0)
- Review of Plato by J.C.B.Gosling (1975) (0)
- The Future of World Jewish Communities (2010) (0)
- The Greek Background (2008) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Nature, Miracles, and the End of the World (2005) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: Particularity (2005) (0)
- Contributors to This Issue (2011) (0)
- From Monotheism to Scepticism and Back Again (2016) (0)
- The Greek Background to Jewish Philosophy (2009) (0)
- Maimonides on the Origin of the World: God and the Problem of Origin (2005) (0)
- From Maimonides to Spinoza (2013) (0)
- How to Read Religion of Reason (1995) (0)
- Socrates and the Ti Esti Question (2018) (0)
- How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster (review) (2022) (0)
- Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy: Conclusion: a partnership with God (2001) (0)
- Cohen’s Reading of Maimonides (2012) (0)
- Reason as a Paradigm in Jewish Thought (2012) (0)
- Judaism and the Idea of the Future (2011) (0)
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