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| Titre : | Spimoza and Other Heretics. Vol 1: The Marrano of Reason |
| Auteurs : | Yirmiyahu Yovel, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Princeton [USA] : Princeton University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-691-07344-6 |
| Format : | xiii + 244 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | QW/C (Etudes sur des philosophes: Renaissance et Lumières (15e-17e s.)) |
| Résumé : |
This ambitious and original study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding thinker of modernity. Anticipating secularization, the rise of natural science, Bible criticism, the Enlightenment, the liberal-democratic state (and, for his fellow Jews, the disintegration of ghetto life), Spinoza grounded his philosophical revolution in a radically new principle called in this book “the philosophy of immanence”: according to this principle, this-worldly existence is all there is. and is thus the only source of ethical worth and political obligation. Drawing materials from history and literature as well as philosophy, Yirmiyahu Yovel follows Spinoza’s ideas in two complementary books—The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of Immanence—sold.
* The Marrano of Reason traces the origins of the idea of immanence to the culture of Spinoza’s Marrano ancestors, Jews in Spain and Portugal who had been forcibly converted to Christianity. Yovel uses their fascinating story to show how the crypto-Jewish life maintained by generations of Marranos in the face of the Inquisition had mixed Judaism and Christianity in ways that undermined both these religions and led to rational skepticism and secularism. In a detailed analysis, Yovel also identifies other patterns of the Marrano mind and experience that recur in Spinoza in a new, secularized context: a strong this-worldly disposition, a split religious identity, an opposition between the inner and the outer life, a quest for salvation in ways that oppose the official doctrine, and a gift for dual language and equivocation. In Spinoza, the “Marrano of Reason,” these patterns were translated from transcendent historical religion to the secular world of reason and immanence. The same background explains the drama of the young Spinoza’s excommunication. Convention portrays the Amsterdam Jews as narrow-minded and fanatical, but in Yovel’s vivid account they emerge as highly civilized former Marranos with cosmopolitan leanings, who were struggling to renew their Jewish identity and build a “New Jerusalem” in the Netherlands. The Epilogue examines Spinoza’s significance to Jews today and the question of whether he was the “first secular Jew.” |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Note on sources - 1. Prologue: Heretic and Banned - 2. Spinoza, the Marrano of Reason - 3. The Split Mind: New Jews in Amsterdam - 4. Marranos in Mask and a World without Transcendence: Rojas and La Celestina - 5. Spinoza, the Multitude, and Dual Language - 6. Knowledge as Alternative Salvation - 7. Epilogue: Spinoza and His People: The First Secular Jew? - Notes - Index |
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