Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity: Rethinking the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781138789265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str.

Harvey Mitchell

Opis

In this book Harvey Mitchell re-examines the nature of Voltaire's hostility to Jews by analysing the Enlightenment, its role as a source of modern Anti-Semitism, and its shaping of modern Jewish identity.

Recenzje

'Mitchell masterfully critiques published work from early modern Europe to date. He makes a good case for ranking Spinoza as a premier Enlightenment thinker, and for revising textbooks to include Dutch Jewish economist Isaac de Pinto.]...[An excellent addition to Routledge's Jewish Studies series. Highly recommended.' - Choice, July 2009

Spis treści

Introduction: Enlightenment and its Discontents  Part 1  1. Spinoza, Bayle and Voltaire: Issues in Contention  2. Images, Imagination, Tolerance and the Uses of Reason  3. Voltaire’s Jews Among the World’s Peoples and Nations  4. Voltaire’s Jews in the World of Commerce  5. Voltaire and the Old Testament  Part 2  6. Reinventing French Judaism and Rethinking the Enlightenment  7. Modern Jewish Identity and the Jewish Question: The Power of Ancestral Voices in a Post-Enlightenment Age  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Harvey Mitchell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Canada