Martin D. Yaffe

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Martin D. Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman, eds.. (2014). Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930's. http://www.amazon.com/Reorientation-Strauss-Recovering-Political-Philosophy/dp/1137374233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409073127&sr=8-1&keywords=reorientation+leo+strauss
• Martin D. Yaffe. (2012). Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn.
• Eds. Alan Udoff, Sharon Portnoff and Martin D. Yaffe. (2011). The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns.
• Edited by Sharon Portnoff, James A Diamond and Martin D. Yaffe. (2008). 5. Emil Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew.
• Spinoza, Benedict. (2004). Theologico-Political Treatise [1670]. Translated from the Latin, retaining Spinoza's original Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Syriac citations, with Glossary, Indexes, and Interpretive Essay. Focus Philosophical Library..
• Edited and Introduced by Martin D. Yaffe. (2001). Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1997). Shylock and the Jewish Question.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1988). Saint Thomas Aquinas. The Literal Exposition on the Book of Job: A Scriptural Commentary concerning Providence. Translated by Anthony Damico. Interpretive Essay and Notes by Martin D. Yaffe.

Book Chapter

• Yaffe, M.D., Whittrock, J., Polt, R. (2016). "Anthropogenic Effects' in Genesis 1-11 and Francis Bacon". Rethinking Nature in the Anthropocene.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2016). "Mendelssohn" Leo Strauss y otros companeros de Platon.
• Eds., Raphael Jospi and Dov Schwartz. (2012). "Philosophy, Jewish Thought, and the American Setting in my Work." In Jewish Philosophy: Perspectives and Retrospectives..
• Martin D. Yaffe and Joshua Parens. (2011). "Introduction" to The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2011). "Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job," in The Fruits of Friendship: Seven Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, ed. Joseph P. Cohem.
• Edited by Sharon Portnoff, James A. Diamond and Martin D. Yaffe. (2008). "Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss." In Emil Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew.
• Edited by Hava Samuelson and Christian Wiese. (2008). "Reason and Feeling in Hans Jonas's Existential Biology, Arne Naess's Deep Ecology, and Spinoza's Ethics." In Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas.
• Edited by John Goyette et al.. (2004). 20. "Natural Law in Maimonides?" In Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition.
• Edited by Stefano Arduini and Robert C. Hodgson, Jr.. (2004). 21. "Bible Translation and the Rhetoric of Theologico-Political Liberalism: The Case of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)." In Similarity and Difference in Translation..
• Edited by Allen H. Podet. (2002). "Theological-Political Implications of Ellis Rivkin's Unity Principle." In Structural Analysis: The Historiographic Method of Ellis Rivkin..
• Edited by Paul J. Bagley. (1999). "Body and the Body Politic in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." In Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize, Piety, and Peace.
• Edited by Douglas Kries. Foreword by Harvey C. Mansfield. (1997). "Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise—A First Inside Look." In Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy.
• Edited by Robert L. Perkins. (1995). "An Unsung Appreciation of the Musical-Erotic in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Hermann Cohen's Nod Toward Kierkegaard's Either/Or." In International Kierkegaard Commentary on Either/Or I.
• Edited by Daniel H. Frank. (1991). "Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss." In Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought..

Book Review

• Green, K.H., Yaffe, M.D. (2014). Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. 161-163. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2003). The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon R. Kass (New York: Free Press, 2003).
• Yaffe, M.D. (2002). 38. Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), trans. Michael Zank (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2002).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1998). Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1997). Aquinas and the Jews, by John Y.B. Hood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1992). The Legacy of Hermann Cohen, by William Kluback (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1991). The Book of Theodicy: Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job, by Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, trans. Lenn E. Goodman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1990). Beyond the Secular Mind: A Judaic Response to the Problems of Modernity, by Paul Eidelberg (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1990). Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age, by Jerry Weinberger (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1989). Nietzsche's Teaching, by Laurence Lampert (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1989). The Judaic State: A Study in Rabbinic Political Theory, by Martin Sicker (New York: Praeger, 1988).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1989). The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1988). The Education of Desire: Plato and the Philosophy of Religion, by Michel Despland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1988). The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, ed. Richard Kennington (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1985).
• Kluback , W., Yaffe, M.D. (1987). Hermann Cohen: The Challenge of a Religion of Reason. 325-330. Chico, California, Scholars Press.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1987). Self-Knowledge in Plato's 'Phaedrus', by Charles Griswold (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1987). The Idea of Humanity: Hermann Cohen's Legacy to Philosophy and Theology (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1986). Socrates and the State, by Richard Kraut (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1985). Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide, by Eugene B. Borowitz (New York: Behrman House, 1983).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1985). The Imperative of Responsibility, by Hans Jonas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1985). The Territorial Dimension of Judaism, by W.D. Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1984). Joseph Ibn Kaspi's 'Gevia' Kesef': A Study in Medieval Jewish Philosophic Bible Commentary, by Basil Herring (New York: Ktav, 1982).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1984). Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni', by Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1983). A Jewish Philosophy and Pattern of Life, by Simon Greenberg (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America Press, 1981).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1983). Studies in Bemidbar (Numbers), by Nehama Liebowitz (Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization, 5740/1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1983). The Human Way: A Dialogic Approach to Religion and Human Experience, by Maurice Friedman (Chambersburg, Penn.: Anima Books, 1982).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). Formulation of Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions, by Eugene F. Fisher and Daniel F. Polish (Notre Dame, Ind.,: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). Jewish Messianism and Christian Trinitarian Doctrine, by Pinchas Lapide and Jürgen Moltmann (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). Judaism and Psychology: Halachic Perspectives, by Moshe Halevi Spero (New York: Ktav and Yeshiva University Press, 1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). Plato's 'Apology of Socrates': An Interpretation, with a New Translation, by Thomas G. West (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979), and Law and Obedience: The Arguments of Plato's 'Crito', by A.D. Woozley (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). The 'Laws' of Plato, trans. with Notes and an Interpretive Essay by Thomas L. Pangle (New York: Basic Books, 1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1982). The Theology of Abraham Bibago: A Defense of the Divine Will, Knowledge and Providence in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jewish Philosophy, by Alan Lazaroff (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). George Berkeley in America, by Edwin S. Gaustad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). Messianism in the Talmudic Era, ed. Leo Landman (New York: Ktav, 1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life, by Aaron Horowitz (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). The Chrysalis of Religion: A Guide to the Jewishness of Martin Buber's 'I and Thou', by Daniel S. Breslauer (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). The Jewish Return into History: Reflections in the Age of Auschwitz and a New Jerusalem, by Emil L. Fackenheim (New York: Schocken Books, 1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). Theology as Comedy: Critical and Theoretical Implications, by George Aichele, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1981). What Can God Do? by Frederick Sontag (Nashville: Abingdon Press,1979).
• Yaffe, M.D. (1978). The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews, by William W. Orbach (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979).

Encyclopedia Article

• Edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman. (2008). "Judaism." In Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. 2 vols..
• Edited by Tom Flynn. (2007). "Spinoza, Baruch or Benedict (1632-77)." The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief..

Journal Article

• Yaffe, M.D. (2021). “Defending National Loyalty: Yoram Hazony on Nationalism”. Perspectives on Political Science. 50 (1)
• Yaffe, M.D. (2017). Parens on Strauss on Recovering Maimonides.
• Martin D. Yaffe. (2012). "?Qué significa popularizar la filosofía? El Fedón de Mendelssohn." La Torre del Virrey: Revista de Estudios Culturales.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2008). 'Exile' as a Theologico-Political Principle in Leo Strauss's Jewish Thought.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2008). Leo Strauss y la dimensión teológica de la filosofía política.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2007). Interpretación de la Ética de Spinoza como un 'sistema': las Horas matinales de Moses Mendelssohn.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2007). Leo Strauss and the Theological Dimension of Political Philosophy: Four Readings.
• Yaffe, M.D. (2007). Remarks On Translating Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1998). Shakespeare and the Jews: A Review Essay.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1997). Kenneth Hart Green on Leo Strauss and Maimonides.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1995). 'The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews': The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1994). Biblical Religion and Liberal Democracy: Comments on Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise and Sacks's Commentary on the Book of Genesis.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1994). On Beginning to Translate Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
• Edited by Robert Stevens et al.. (1993). "The Case Against the Great Books—And its Refutation." In The Core and the Canon: A National Debate..
• Yaffe, M.D. (1993). Two Recent Treatments of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: A Review Essay.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1991). Leo Strauss as Judaic Thinker: Some First Notions.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1991). One-Sided Platonism: Hermann Cohen on the 'Social Ideal' in Plato and the Prophets.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1989). On Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law: A Review Essay.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1979). Liturgy and Ethics: Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on the Day of Atonement.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1979). Myth and 'Science' in Aristotle's Theology.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1979). Providence in Medieval Aristotelianism: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1976). Civil Disobedience and the Opinion of the Many: Plato's Crito.

Other

• Yaffe, M.D. (2017). Symposium on Joshua Parens's Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. Review of Politics. 79 (3) 475-93. New York, NY, Cambridge UP. http//us.cambridge/org/information/rights/

Popular Press Article

• Yaffe, M.D. (1997). Shylock as Drawn by Shakespeare.

Translation or Transcription

• with Ian Alexander Moore. (2013). Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings.
• Yaffe, M.D. (1978). Translation from the Greek, with Anthony Damico, of Josephus, Antiquities 12.12-17, in Ellis Rivkin, A Hidden Revolution: The Pharisees' Search for the Kingdom Within.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Yaffe, M.D., "Subvention for book, Emil Fackenheim's Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources," sponsored by University of Toronto Centre for Jewish Studies, Other, $8000 Funded. (2020 - 2020).
• Yaffe, M.D., "Yoram Hazony on Nationalism," sponsored by Philosophy and Religion Department, UNT, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
• Yaffe, M.D., "Subvention for book, Emil Fackenheim's Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources," sponsored by University of Toronto Centre for Jewish Studies, Other, Funded. (2020 - 2020).