Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration

Marco Piazza (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 182 Seiten

2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783031187117 (ISBN)

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This book challenges Voltaire's doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire's 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).

Marco Piazza is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tre, Italy.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Irreverent Hermeneut.- Chapter 3: The "Tolerated" The Aspiring Godfather Rabbi.- Chapter 4: The Forgetful Genealogist.- Chapter 5: The Aspiring Godfather.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.- Chapter 7: Epilogue: Did Voltaire Make an Exception for a Certain Jewish "Philosopher"?.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism
Zusatzinfo	IX, 182 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
Schlagworte	Antisemitism • Des Juifs (1756) • Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784) • Enlightenment • French Philosophy
ISBN-13	9783031187117 / 9783031187117
Zustand	Neuware