Sceptics, Millenarians and JewsOne of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies which confirm the variety and complexity of the slow movement from Renaissance to Enlightenment, and the profound impact of many of the manifestations of intellectual and religious tension during the early modern period. The essays in this volume are a contribution to this process of reappraisal, focusing specifically on the phenomena of scepticism and millenarianism, especially as part of the more pronounced role of the Jews and their culture. |
Contents
SCEPTICISM AND THE PROBLEM OF THE CRITERION | 1 |
CHINESE AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT | 15 |
DESCARTES AN ENTHUSIAST MALGRÉ LUI? | 35 |
DESCARTES AND OTHERS | 59 |
DESCARTES AND THE METHOD OF ANNIHILATION | 70 |
DUTCH SEPHARDI JEWRY MILLENARIAN POLITICS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR BRAZIL 16401654 | 76 |
WHY WAS BARUCH DE SPINOZA EXCOMMUNICATED? | 98 |
QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND MESSIANIC THOUGHT | 142 |
HENRY JESSEY AND HIS THE GLORY AND SALVATIONOF JEHUDAH AND ISRAEL 1650 | 161 |
UNE RELATION ITALIENNE DU XVIIème SIÈCLE | 185 |
KARAITES IN EARLY EIGHTEENTHCENTURY AMSTERDAM | 196 |
THE HUTCHINSONIANS AND HEBRAIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN EIGHTEENTHCENTURY ENGLAND | 237 |
PRIESTLEY THE JEWS AND THE MILLENNIUM | 256 |
SOCIAL THEOR Y AND GOTHIC HORROR IN THE WRITINGS OF SIMONNICOLASHENRI LINGUET | 275 |
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