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Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823–1900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan origins. Although the relationship between Kabbalah and philosophy has always been problematic, Benamozegh considered Kabbalah to be the true dogmatic and rational tradition of Judaism. In his numerous books and articles in Hebrew, Italian, and French, he constantly integrated this Jewish esoteric tradition into the currents of Western European philosophy, particularly Hegelian idealism and positivism, as well as the philosophy of the unconscious that would later develop into psychoanalysis. Benamozegh's inspired reading of Spinoza, his grand project of a universal religion, his "feminization" of Jewish thought, and his ability to excel simultaneously as a rabbi, an Italian patriot, a citizen of the République des Lettres, and a proud representative of an ancient Sephardic culture make him one of the most outstanding and original figures of the nineteenth-century Jewish culture.

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INTRODUCTION A FEW BIOGRAPHICAL POINTERS PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND KABBALAH KABBALAH AND PROGRESS THEOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THE UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIP CONDITIONED PROGRESS HISTORY AND TRUTH “PANTHEISM: THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR AGE” MODERATE IDEALISM: A TENDENCY TOWARD UNION DISTINCTIONS PRESERVED The Philosophical Context Spinoza’s Error: Downwards Union Christianity’s error: Upwards Union The Metaphysical Flaws of Christian Morality The Historical Jesus RECONCILIATION: IMMANENTIST MONOTHEISM The Triumph of the Occident and Thoughts on Difference Plurality within Unity HIDDEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM: FEUERBACH’S REASONS FROM LAMENTATIONS OF EXILE TO A SENSE OF MISSION PHILOLOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Hebrew: A Perfect Language? Hebrew: A Dead Language? The Possibility of Modern Hebraic Poetry Vico and the Zohar THE INEVITABLE CHOICES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BIBLICAL COMMENTARY An Eloquent Incipit Condemnation from the Oriental Rabbis Israel Moshe Hazan: Fundamentalism and Moderation “As though hanging in air” The Omissions of Em La-Miqra: The Conjunction of Kabbalah and Modernity The Positive Hermeneutics Comparitivism Concordism and Tradition Erudition and Philosophy THE NOTES ON THE ZOHAR PART II: TRADITION, ORALITY, AND TEXT ISSUES IN PLAY TRADITION AND TEXT: BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM TRADITION AND TEXTS FOR A SCIENCE OF JUDAISM IN DEFENSE OF TRADITION Definitions THE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORD POLEMICAL CONTEXT Tradition versus Subjectivity Criticism of Modernity and a New Apologia The Danger of Individualism Jewish Reformers and Traditionalists Defense of Kabbalah Polemic in Italian Judaism: S. D. Luzzatto’s Dialogues on the Kabbalah The Inadequacy of Literal Interpretation Kabbalah and Philology Reason and Divine Tradition Science, Method, and Transmission Religion in the Feminine Declension PART III: STYLE AS WITNESS The Orient, “To Orient Oneself” Solitude: “I live in the Boeotia of Judaism” The Need to Speak The Imaginary Library From Orient to Occident NOTES INDEX

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