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Another modernity : Elia Benamozegh's Jewish universalism /
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Benamozegh's texts and contexts : Morocco, the Risorgimento, and the disputed manuscript
- The Moroccan world of a Livornese Jew
- An Italian Jewish patriot in the Risorgimento
- The banned author and the oriental Publisher
- Expanding his readership : Benamozegh's turn to French
- The afterlives of a manuscript
- Part II. Universalism as an index of Jewish modernity
- Situating Benamozegh in the debate on Jewish universalism
- Normativity and inclusivity in modernity : the role and limits of the Noahide Laws
- Cosmopolitanism and universalism : the political value of Judaism in an Age of Nations
- Universalism in particularism : Benamozegh's legacies, between Levinas and religious Zionism
- Part III. Beyond binaries : Kabbalah as a tool for modernity
- Kabbalah : reason and the power of myth
- Beyond dualism : Kabbalah and the coincidence of opposites
- Kabbalah as politics
- Part IV. Past enmity : modes of interreligious engagement and Jewish self-affirmation
- Religious enmity and tolerance reconsidered
- "The iron crucible" and loci of religious contact
- Self-assertion and a Jewish theology of religions
- Modes of interreligious engagement : from theory to social practices.