Simone Luzzatto's Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Simone Luzzatto's Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought write by Giuseppe Veltri. This book was released on 2024. Simone Luzzatto's Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rabbi Simone Luzzatto was the first thinker of the early modern period to put forth new political and philosophical ideas under the banner of scepticism, helping to make the Jews an integral part of society.
Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought
Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought write by . This book was released on 2024-03-04. Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of the most recent research on Jewish scepticism was inspired by the work of the early modern Venetian rabbi Simone Luzzatto, the first thinker in the history of Jewish thought to declare himself a sceptic and a follower of the New Academy. This collected volume shines new light on the intimate relationship between Luzzatto’s sceptical thinking and an era marked by paradoxes and contrasts between religious devotion and scientific rationalism, as well as between the rabbinic-biblical Jewish tradition and the open tendency towards engagement with non-Jewish philosophical, literary, scientific, and theological cultures. It plots out an original path along which to understand Luzzatto’s scepticism by pointing to the various facets of being a Jewish sceptic in seventeenth-century Italy.
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 write by Yoav Meyrav. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. The Yearbook 2016 was published as volume 1 in the series Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion. From 2017 onwards, the Yearbook is published as a separate series. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Studies and Texts in Scepticism and Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion.
Discourse on the State of the Jews
Discourse on the State of the Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse on the State of the Jews write by Simone Luzzatto. This book was released on 2019-07-08. Discourse on the State of the Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2016
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2016 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2016 write by Giuseppe Veltri. This book was released on 2016-11-07. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2016 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. Staff, visiting fellows, and other international scholars are invited to contribute.
