Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History

by Alexander Green

Book Overview

The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280-1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress by Alexander Green is the first book in English to focus on a central aspect of his work: Ibn Kaspi's philosophy of history. Green argues that Ibn Kaspi understood history as guided by two distinct but interdependent forces: power and progress,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438476027
• ISBN13: 9781438476025
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"