| Description |
xv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Ideas in context ; 66 |
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Ideas in context ; 66
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| Contents |
Introduction: disentangling Judaism and Enlightenment -- Pt. 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 Mosaica -- 3. Meaning and method: Jewish history, world history -- 4. The limits of erudition: Jacques Basnage and Pierre Bayle -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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? |
| Summary |
"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. 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 262-306 |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Europe -- History.
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Judaism -- History -- 17th century.
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Judaism -- History -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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Europe -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103329
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| LC no. |
2002031069 |
| ISBN |
0521820154 |
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