Abstract
Generally, Moses Mendelssohn is considered as the promoter of the jewish modernity. This evidence is submitted in this paper to investigation. This inquiry will discover a pre-modernity - "the first Aufklärung "-that we find premiss and trend into the Theologico-political treatise of B. Spinoza, the works of Menashe ben Israël (1604-1653) and of Simone Simh'a Luzatto (1583-1663). Mendelssohn was inspired by those thinkers, even ifthey are not named expressly, as it appears through the close reading of his Jerusalem or religious power and Judaïsm.
Translated title of the contribution | At the roots of Jewish modernity: "The first Aufklärung" |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 537-554 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale |
Volume | 96 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 17 Nov 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |