Martin Yaffe

Martin Yaffe
Born	1942 (age 82–83)
Academic background
Education	Claremont Graduate University (PhD), University of Toronto (BA)
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Institutions	University of North Texas (1968-)
Main interests	Jewish thought, political philosophy

Martin D. Yaffe (born 1942) is a Canadian American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is known for his works on the Jewish thought and political philosophy.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Books

• Shylock and the Jewish Question. Johns Hopkins University Press: 1997. ISBN 0801856485
• Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn. Translated, edited, and with an interpretive essay by Martin D. Yaffe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN 9780226922782, 0226922782
• Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on the Book of Job (tr.), Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 1555402925, 9781555402921
• Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (tr.), Focus Philosophical Library/Hackett, 2004. ISBN 9781585101122, 9781585100859

Edited

• Judaism and environmental ethics: a reader, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. ISBN 0-7391-0117-X
• Emil Fackenheim—Philosopher, Theologian, Jew: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Sharon Portnoff, Jim Diamond, and Martin Yaffe, Brill 2008. ISBN 9789047429340, 9789004157675
• The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, Lexington Books, 2011. ISBN 9780739150467
• Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman. New York NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. ISBN 1137374233, 9781137374233
• Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780271086156, 9780271086163
• Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources, University of Toronto Press, 2021. ISBN 1487529643, 9781487529642
• Laurence Berns’s The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon, with Special Attention to the Principles of Foreign Policy, Political Animal Press, 2024. ISBN 1895131693, 9781895131697

References

1. Halio, Jay L. (2000). "Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question". Shakespeare Quarterly. 51 (2): 258–260. doi:10.2307/2902147. ISSN 0037-3222. JSTOR 2902147.
2. Green, Kenneth Hart (1999). "Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question". Modern Judaism. 19 (3): 311–317. doi:10.1093/mj/19.3.311. ISSN 0276-1114. JSTOR 1396680.
3. Schall, James V. (2013). "Review of Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn". The Review of Metaphysics. 67 (1): 190–192. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 23598028.
4. Baumann, Fred (2015). "Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn, translated and edited by Martin D. Yaffe". Interpretation. 41 (3): 349–358.
5. Quinn, Timothy S. (3 March 2015). "Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman". International Philosophical Quarterly. 55 (1): 123–127. doi:10.5840/ipq20155513.

External links

• Yaffe at the University of North Texas