ISBN:
9789004694262
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 280 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2024
Series Statement:
Maimonides library for philosophy and religion volume 7
Series Statement:
Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Simone Luzzatto’s scepticism in the context of Early Modern thought
Keywords:
Jewish philosophy History 17th century
;
Judaism History 17th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Lutsaṭo, Śimḥah 1582-1663
;
Skepsis
Abstract:
Much of the most recent research on Jewish scepticism was inspired by the work of the early modern Venetian rabbi Simone Luzzatto, the first thinker in the history of Jewish thought to declare himself a sceptic and a follower of the New Academy. This collected volume shines new light on the intimate relationship between Luzzatto’s sceptical thinking and an era marked by paradoxes and contrasts between religious devotion and scientific rationalism, as well as between the rabbinic-biblical Jewish tradition and the open tendency towards engagement with non-Jewish philosophical, literary, scientific, and theological cultures. It plots out an original path along which to understand Luzzatto’s scepticism by pointing to the various facets of being a Jewish sceptic in seventeenth-century Italy.
Note:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004694262
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