Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editorial vii
4. Part I: Articles
5. Epoché as the Erotic Conversion of One into Two 3
6. Some Blunt Instruments of Dogmatic Logic: Sextus Empiricus’ Sceptical Attack 15
7. In antiquam litem relabimur. Sceptical Hints in Petrarch’s Secretum 29
8. Sceptical Strategies in Simone Luzzatto’s Presentation of the Kabbalists in his Discorso 51
9. The Italian Academies and Rabbi Simone Luzzatto’s Socrate: the Freedom of the Ingenium and the Soul 71
10. Jewish Thought vs. Lutheran Aristotelism: Johann Frischmuth (1619–1687) and Jewish Scepticism 95
11. Negotiating the Principle of (Non)-Contradiction: Johann Frischmuth on the Rabbinic Dialectic Discussion 107
12. Silence, Translation, and Grammatical Therapy: Some Features of Linguistic Scepticism in the Thought of Rosenzweig and Wittgenstein 121
13. Was Leo Strauss a Zetetic Political Philosopher? 145
14. Jewish Faith and Scepticism—The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz 161
15. Part II: Lectures
16. What is Jewish Philosophy? A View from the Middle Ages 185
17. WORKSHOP: Jewish-Christian Polemics in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period 205
18. Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah 239
19. Lingua Adamica and Philology: The Rise and Destruction of a Concept 247
20. Part III: Reports
21. Activities and Events 269
22. Report on the Sceptical Atelier on Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte (6–9 February, 2017) 293
23. Report on the Sceptical Atelier on Simone Luzzatto’s Socrates: Reading the Forthcoming First English Translation (22–24 May, 2017) 299
24. Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism 303