Martin Yaffe

{{Short description|American philosopher (born 1942)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name =Martin Yaffe | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt= | caption= | native_name= | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = 1942 | birth_place= | death_date = | death_place= | death_cause= | nationality= | citizenship= | other_names= | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner= | children = | parents= | relatives = | awards = | website= | education = Claremont Graduate University (PhD), University of Toronto (BA) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year= | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era= | discipline = Philosophy | sub_discipline = | workplaces = University of North Texas (1968-) | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = Jewish thought, political philosophy | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Halio |first1=Jay L. |title=Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question |journal=Shakespeare Quarterly |date=2000 |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=258–260 |doi=10.2307/2902147 |jstor=2902147 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902147 |issn=0037-3222|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=Kenneth Hart |title=Review of Shylock and the Jewish Question |journal=Modern Judaism |date=1999 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=311–317 |doi=10.1093/mj/19.3.311 |jstor=1396680 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1396680 |issn=0276-1114|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schall |first1=James V. |title=Review of Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |date=2013 |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=190–192 |jstor=23598028 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23598028 |issn=0034-6632}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baumann |first1=Fred |author-link=Fred Baumann |title=Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn, translated and edited by Martin D. Yaffe |journal=Interpretation |date=2015 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=349–358 |url=https://interpretationjournal.com/shop/leo-strauss-moses-mendelssohn-translated-edited-martin-d-yaffe/}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Quinn |first1=Timothy S. |title=Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman |journal=International Philosophical Quarterly |date=3 March 2015 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=123–127 |doi=10.5840/ipq20155513 |language=en}}</ref>

==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}}

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==External links== * [https://chile.unt.edu/people/dr-martin-yaffe.html Yaffe at the University of North Texas] {{authority control}}

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