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Autore |
Veltri Giuseppe |
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Titolo |
Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb [[electronic resource] ] : foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity / / by Giuseppe Veltri |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-40056-8 |
9786612400568 |
90-474-2528-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, , 1873-9008 ; ; v. 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jewish philosophy - History |
Jews - Politics and government - Philosophy |
Judaism and politics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: In search of a Jewish renaissance -- Jewish philosophy : humanist roots of a contradiction in terms -- The prophetic-poetic dimension of philosophy : the ars poetica and Immanuel of Rome -- Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy -- Conceptions of history : Azariah de' Rossi -- Scientific thought and the exegetical mind, with an essay on the life and works of Rabbi Judah Loew -- Mathematical and biblical exegesis : Jewish sources of Athanasius Kircher's musical theory -- Creating geographical and political utopias : the ten lost tribes and the east -- Ceremonial law : history of a philosophical-political concept -- The city and the ghetto : Simone Luzzatto and the development of Jewish political thought -- Body of conversion and immortality of the soul : Sara Copio Sullam, the "Beautiful Jewess". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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