Another Modernity

Elia Benamozegh's Jewish Universalism

AvClémence Boulouque

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Engelska, 2020

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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 thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel. What Benamozegh proposed was unprecedented: that the Jewish tradition presented a solution to the religious crisis of modernity. According to Benamozegh, the defining features of Judaism were universalism, a capacity to foster interreligious engagement, and the political power and mythical allure of its theosophical tradition, Kabbalah—all of which made the Jewish tradition uniquely equipped to assuage the post-Enlightenment tensions between religion and reason. In this book, Clémence Boulouque presents a wide-ranging and nuanced investigation of Benamozegh's published and unpublished work and his continuing legacy, considering his impact on Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as on far-right Christians and right-wing religious Zionists.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781503613119
Förlag:Stanford University Press
Serie:Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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Clémence Boulouque is the Carl and Bernice Witten Assistant Professor in Jewish and Israel studies at Columbia University.

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"Another Modernity offers a brilliant portrait of Elia Benamozegh, a fascinating and largely hidden gem of modern Jewish thought. Clémence Boulouque deftly captures the Italian rabbi's singular approach to mysticism, universalism, and the role of Judaism in the modern world; she is the ideal scholar to bring Benamozegh out of an undeserved obscurity."—Jessica Maya Marglin, University of Southern California "Clémence Boulouque brilliantly succeeds in elucidating previously neglected aspects of the work of a rabbi and philosopher who lived at the crossroads of irreconcilable worlds, yet provided a broad and consistent version of Judaism that was at once traditional and modern. This intelligent, well-informed, well-written book is an important step towards comprehending the multi-faceted thought of Elia Benamozegh."—Alessandro Guetta, INALCO, Paris "Boulouque['s] work gives a detailed description of Benamozegh['s] character and analyzes various aspects of his thought, from political to kabbalistic, with a very rich bibliography... The book is written smoothly, and succeeds to give a complete vision of Benamozegh's thought, analyzing different perspectives, but above all gives a vast overview of what modernity is and how Benamozegh dealt with it, in a different way from classical models."—Andrea Yaakov Lattes, Sephardic Horizons

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Moroccan World of a Livornese Jew2. An Italian Jewish Patriot in the Risorgimento3. The Banned Author and the Oriental Publisher4. Expanding His Readership: Benamozegh's Turn to French5. The Afterlives of a Posthumous Manuscript6. Situating Benamozegh in the Debate on Jewish Universalism7. Normativity and Inclusivity in Modernity: The Role and Limits of the Noahide Laws8. Cosmopolitanism and Universalism: The Political Value of Judaism in an Age of Nations9. Universalism in Particularism: Benamozegh's Legacies, between Levinas and Religious Zionism10. Kabbalah: Reason and the Power of Myth11. Beyond Dualism: Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites12. Kabbalah as Politics13. Religious Enmity and Tolerance Reconsidered14. "The Iron Crucible" and Loci of Religious Contact15. Self-Assertion and a Jewish Theology of Religions16. Modes of Interreligious Engagement: From Theory to Social Practices