Jewish political theories in the Renaissance and the early modern period
By: by Giuseppe Veltri.
Series: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy -- v. 8
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9789004171961
Subjects: Philosophy, Jewish -- History; Jews -- Politics and government -- Philosophy; Judaism and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: in search of a Jewish renaissance; title: Jewish philosophy: humanist roots of a contradiction in terms; title: The prophetic-poetic dimension of philosophy: the ars poetica and Immanuel of Rome; title: Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy; title: Conceptions of history: Azariah de Rossi; title: Scientific thought and the exegetical mind, with an essay on the life and works of Rabbi Judah Loew; title: Mathematical and biblical exegesis: Jewish sources of Athanasius Kircher's musical theory; title: Creating geographical and political utopias: the ten lost tribes and the east; title: Ceremonial law: history of a philosophical-political concept; title: The city and the ghetto: Simone Luzzatto and the development of Jewish political thought; title: Body of conversion and immortality of the soul: Sara Copio Sullam, the 'Beautiful Jewess'.