Download or read book Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of “modernity” as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical consciousness and the sciences, utopian tradition, the legal status of the Jews in Christian political tradition and in Jewish political thought, aesthetic concepts of the body and conversion.