Judaism and EnlightenmentCambridge University Press, 2004 - 338 σελίδες This study investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual life of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Adam Sutcliffe shows how the widespread and enthusiastic fascination with Judaism prevalent around 1650 was largely eclipsed a century later by attitudes of dismissal and disdain. He argues that Judaism was uniquely difficult for Enlightenment thinkers to account for, and that their intense responses, both negative and positive, to Jewish topics are central to an understanding of the underlying ambiguities of the Enlightenment itself. Judaism and the Jews were a limit case, a destabilising challenge, and a constant test for Enlightenment rationalism. Erudite and highly broad-ranging in its sources, and yet extremely accessible in its argument, Judaism and Enlightenment is a major contribution to the history of European ideas, of interest to scholars of Jewish history and to those working on the Enlightenment, toleration and the emergence of modernity itself. |
Περιεχόμενα
The crisis and decline of Christian Hebraism | 23 |
Hebraic politics Respublica Mosaica | 42 |
Meaning and method Jewish history world history | 58 |
The limits of erudition Jacques Basnage and Pierre Boyle | 79 |
JUDAISM AND THE FORMATION OF ENLIGHTENMENT RADICALISM | 101 |
Religious dissent and debate in Sephardi Amsterdam | 103 |
Judaism in Spinoza and his circle | 118 |
Spinoza Messiah of the Enlightenment? | 133 |
Judaism reason and the critique of religion | 165 |
JUDAISM NATIONHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 191 |
Utopianism republicanism cosmopolitanism | 193 |
Judaism and the invention of toleration | 213 |
The ambiguities of Enlightenment Voltaire and the Jews | 231 |
reason versus myth? | 247 |
Bibliography | 262 |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 266 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Σελίδα 266 - ... REMAINS (the) of Robert Bloomfield, author of the Farmer's boy, Rural tales, &c. [Edited by Joseph WESTON.] London: 1824. Duodecimo. [W.] REMAINS of William Ralph Churton. [By his brother, Dr CHURTON.] Private Impression. 1830. Octavo. Pp. 179. [W., Martin's Cat.] REMARKABLE (the) life of Uriel Acosta ; to which is added Mr Limborch's Defence of Christianity, in answer to Acosta's objections. [Translated and edited by John WHISTON, bookseller ; revised by L)r Roper.] London: 1740.
Σελίδα 14 - Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), especially chapters 1—3; and Lorraine Daston, "Baconian Facts, Academic Civility, and the Prehistory of Objectivity," Annals of Scholarship 8, nos.
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