Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration
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| Author | : Marco Piazza |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2023-01-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783031187124 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3031187121 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration by : Marco Piazza
Book excerpt: This book challenges Voltaire’s doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire’s attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article ‘Juifs’ in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).
