Adam Sutcliffe

Judaism and Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Daston, Lorraine; Skinner, Quentin

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780521672320
• ISBN-10: 0521672325
• Artikelnr.: 21886161

Autorenporträt

Adam Sutcliffe is Chaim Lopata Assistant Professor of European Jewish History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: disentangling Judaism and Enlightenment
Part I. The Crumbling of Old Certainties: Judaism, the Bible and the Meaning of History: 1. The crisis and decline of Christian Hebraism
2. Hebraic politics: Respublica Mosaiaca
3. Meaning and method: Jewish history, world history
4. The limits of erudition: Jacques Basnage and Pierre Bayle
Part II. Judaism and the Formation of Enlightenment Radicalism: 5. Religious dissent and debate in Sephardi Amsterdam
6. Judaism in Spinoza and his circle
7. Spinoza: Messiah of the Enlightenment?
8. Enlightenment and Kabbalah
9. Judaism, reason and the critique of religion
Part III. Judaism, Nationhood and the Politics of Enlightenment: 10. Utopianism, Republicanism, Cosmopolitanism
11. Judaism and the invention of toleration
12. The ambiguities of Enlightenment: Voltaire and the Jews
Conclusion: reason versus myth?