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 |