Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb: Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity
Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of “modernity” as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical consciousness and the sciences,...
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Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of “modernity” as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical consciousness and the sciences, utopian tradition, the legal status of the Jews in Christian political tradition and in Jewish political thought, aesthetic concepts of the body and conversion.
Introduction In Search of a Jewish Renaissance 1Ch. 1 Jewish Philosophy: Humanist Roots of a Contradiction in Terms 11Ch. 2 The Prophetic-Poetic Dimension of Philosophy: The An' Poetica and Immanuel of Rome 39Ch. 3 Leone Ebreo's Concept of Jewish Philosophy 60Ch. 4 Conceptions of History: Azariah de' Rossi 73Ch. 5 Scientific Thought and the Exegetical Mind, with an Essay on the Life and Works of Rabbi Judah Loew 97Ch. 6 Mathematical and Biblical Exegesis: Jewish Sources of Athanasius Kircher's Musical Theory 129Ch. 7 Creating Geographical and Political Utopias: The Ten Lost Tribes and the East 144Ch. 8 Ceremonial Law: History of a Philosophical-Political Concept 169Ch. 9 The City and the Ghetto: Simone Luzzatto and the Development of Jewish Political Thought 195Ch. 10 Body of Conversion and Immortality of the Soul: Sara Copio Sullam, the "Beautiful Jewess" 226Postface 249Documentation Style, Transliteration, and References 253Select Bibliography 255Index 271
