Martin D. Yaffe

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.

Books Shylock and the Jewish Question. Johns Hopkins University Press: 1997. Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn. Translated, edited, and with an interpretive essay by Martin D. Yaffe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on the Book of Job (tr.), Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1989. Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (tr.), Focus Philosophical Library/Hackett, 2004. Edited Judaism and environmental ethics: a reader, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. Emil Fackenheim—Philosopher, Theologian, Jew: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Sharon Portnoff, Jim Diamond, and Martin Yaffe, Brill 2008. The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, Lexington Books, 2011. Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe and Richard Ruderman. New York NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources, University of Toronto Press, 2021. Laurence Berns’s The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon, with Special Attention to the Principles of Foreign Policy, Political Animal Press, 2024.