Kenneth Seeskin

Kenneth Seeskin (born 1947) 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.

Books The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides, Cambridge University Press, 2005 Maimonides on the Origin of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2005 Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, 2000 Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age, SUNY Press, 1990 Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed, Behrman House, 1991 Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible, University of Nebraska Press, 2016