Voltaire against the Jews, or the limits of toleration / / Marco Piazza

• Autore: Piazza Marco
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 pages)
• Disciplina: 325
• Soggetto topico: Judaism - Philosophy; Toleration - Philosophy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Century of Tolerance and Its Most Famous Standard-Bearer -- The Charge of Anti-Semitism -- From Voltaire's Anti-Semitism to His Attitude Towards Jews -- Open Questions -- References -- Chapter 2: The Irreverent Hermeneut -- A Profane Story -- An Ignorant and Barbarous People -- The Involuntary Slanderer -- Private Self-Criticism and the Jewish Philosophe -- References -- Chapter 3: The "Tolerated" Rabbi -- Voltaire Plays the Jew -- An Appropriate Regime for Catholic France -- The Right to Intolerance Towards the Extremely Tolerant -- The Most Uncivilized Were Also Cannibals -- The Strategist of Ridicule -- References -- Chapter 4: The Forgetful Genealogist -- The Anti-Semite Memmius -- "Your Servant, Your Friend, Your Brother" -- Anthropophagous Idolaters -- Calculating Animals -- The Rabbis, Unexpected Allies -- References -- Chapter 5: The Aspiring Godfather -- An Expert in Anti-Judaism -- Persecuted Like a Jew -- An Ars Oratoria Between Omissions and Concessions -- The "Jew of a Great King" -- The Politician Does Not Stop Being a Theologian -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- An Article Constructed Post-Mortem -- Apologists Not Necessarily Without Prejudice -- Possible Answers -- References -- Chapter 7: Epilogue: Did Voltaire Make an Exception for a Certain Jewish "Philosopher"? -- References -- Bibliography -- A) Voltaire's Works -- B) Other Primary Sources -- C) Historical Editions of Primary Sources -- D) Other Philosophical Texts -- E) Specific Secondary Sources on Voltaire and the Jews (in Order of Publication) -- F) Other Secondary Sources Containing Elements on Voltaire and the Jews (in Order of Publication) -- G) Secondary Sources on Other Aspects of Voltaire's Thought and Biography -- H) Other Secondary Sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book challenges Voltaires doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaires attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article Juifs in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).
• Titolo autorizzato: Voltaire Against the Jews, or the Limits of Toleration
• ISBN: 9783031187124; 9783031187117
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910639899703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave critical studies of antisemitism and racism