Personal Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Personal Introduction 9
4. On This Volume 12
5. Part I: The Framework
6. Chapter One: Is There a Jewish Political Philosophy?: The Medieval Case Reconsidered 16
7. Chapter Two: Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Philosophy: An Overview 50
8. Part II: Studies: The Middle Ages
9. Chapter Three: Aristotle’s Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought 78
10. Chapter Four: The Attitude towards Democracy in Medieval Jewish Political Thought 120
11. Chapter Five: The Organic Theory of the State in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Though 140
12. Chapter Six: Jethro’s Advice in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish and Christian Political Thought 175
13. Chapter Seven: The Anonymous Hebrew Translation of Aegidius’ De Regimine Principum: An Unknown Chapter in Medieval Jewish Political Philosophy 212
14. Part III: Studies: The Renaissance
15. Chapter Eight: The Myth of Venice in Italian Renaissance Jewish Thought 230
16. Chapter Nine: Natural, Human, Divine: Classification of the Law among Some Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italian Jewish Thinkers 244
17. Chapter Ten: The Hebrew Laudatio of Yohanan Alemanno: In Praise of Lorenzo il Magnifico and the Florentine Constitution 272
18. Chapter Eleven: Simone Luzzatto on Tacitus: Apologetica and Ragione di Stato 305
19. Chapter Twelve: English Travellers and Venetian Jewish Scholars: The Case of Simone Luzzatto and James Harrington 335
20. Chapter Thirteen: Machiavellism and Anti-Machiavellism in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Amsterdam: From Ragione di Stato to Razon de Estado 355
21. Works Cited 371
22. Index 424