Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe [[electronic resource] ] : Studies on the Traité des Trois Imposteurs / / edited by Silvia Berti, Françoise Charles-Daubert, R.H. Popkin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910479878703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996
• ISBN: 94-015-8735-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1996.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIX, 532 p.)
• Collana: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, , 0066-6610 ; ; 148
• Disciplina: 180-190
• Soggetti: Philosophy; History; Modern philosophy; Romance languages; Religion; History of Philosophy; History, general; Modern Philosophy; Romance Languages; Religious Studies, general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: I. History and Interpretation of the ‘Traité des Trois Imposteurs’ -- 1. L’Esprit de Spinosa: ses origines et sa première édition dans leur contexte spinozien -- 2. Une Histoire interminable: origines et développement du Traité des trois imposteurs -- 3. History and structure of our Traité des trois imposteurs -- 4. L’Esprit de Spinosa et les Traités des trois imposteurs: rappel des différentes familles et de leurs principales caractéristiques -- II. Around the ‘Traité’ -- 5. Freethinking in early-eighteenth-century Protestant Germany: Peter Friedrich Arpe and the Traité des trois imposteurs -- 6. The English Deists and the Traité -- 7. Sallengre, La Monnoye, and the Traité des trois imposteurs -- 8. The politics of a publishing event: the Marchand ; milieu and The life and spirit of Spinoza of 1719 -- 9. Impostors and Revolution: on the ‘Philadelphie’ 1796 edition of the Traité des trois imposteurs -- III. The Threads of a Tradition -- 10. An eighteenth-century interpretation of the Ethica: Henry de Boulainvilliers’s ‘Essai de métaphysique’ -- 11. Legislators, impostors, and the politic origins of religion: English theories of ‘imposture’ from Stubbe to Toland -- 12. ‘Behold the fear of the Lord’: the Erastianism of Stillingfleet, Wolseley, and Tillotson -- 13. ‘Jesus Nazarenus legislator’: Adam Boreel’s defence of Christianity -- 14. Johan Adler Salvius’ Questions to Baruch de Castro concerning De tribus impostoribus -- 15. The struggle against unbelief in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam after Spinoza’s excommunication -- 16. Worse than the three impostors? towards an interpretation of Theodor Ludwig Lau’s Meditationes philosophicae de Deo, mundo, homine.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteenth century. Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi­ ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed. The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine writings available in the Enlightenment, which is most important for understanding the develop­ ment of religious scepticism, radical deism, and even atheism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars for the last couple of decades have been trying to assess when the work was actually written or compiled and by whom. In view of the widespread distribution of manu­ scripts of the work all over Europe, they have also been seeking to find out who was influenced by the work, and what it represented for its time. Hitherto unknown manuscripts are being turned up in public and private libraries all over Europe and the United States.

Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution [[electronic resource] /] / Kenneth B. Moss

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785019703321
• Autore: Moss Kenneth B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-674-05431-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 384 p., [12] p. of plates ) : ill
• Disciplina: 305.892/404709041
• Soggetti: Jews - Russia - Intellectual life - 20th century; Hebrew language - Social aspects - Russia - History - 20th century; Yiddish language - Social aspects - Russia - History - 20th century; Language and culture; Russia Intellectual life 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The time for words has passed -- The constitution of culture -- Unfettering Hebrew and Yiddish culture -- To make our masses intellectual -- The liberation of the Jewish individual -- The imperatives of revolution -- Making Jewish culture Bolshevik.
• Sommario/riassunto: Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.